1st Edition

Restoring Primary Care Reframing Relationships and Redesigning Practice

By Anton J Kuzel, John D Engel Copyright 2011
146 Pages
by CRC Press

146 Pages
by CRC Press

To many practitioners, managers and patients, US primary care is in crisis. Primary care physicians are often overworked and undervalued, and both patients and care providers can feel locked into structures that lack compassion and are unfit for their intended purposes. Healthcare reforms aim to resolve the situation, but changes may take years to deliver and are contingent on numerous outside... Read more
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Anton J Kuzel, John D Engel