Wanted: Healthy and Engaged Primary Care Physicians

摘要

As we undertake these evolutions, we are constantly reminded that we are facing a growing shortage of primary care physicians, estimated to be around 45,000 physicians early in the next decade.1 Demands on the individual physician are compounded by pressure from insurance companies who are dropping physicians and groups because of profit concerns.In addition, scrutiny from patients armed with inflated expectations and access to a diverse healthcare marketplace . may result in potentially damaging and rapid, reflexive criticism of providers on web physician-rating sites. This results in an ever-increasing emphasis on subjective patient experience, which may be completely unrelated to the objective quality of healthcare received.