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Mandating primary care

Posted on September 19, 2008

Buckeye Surgeon returns with a post about the primary care shortage. He likens the situation to a little-league baseball team, saying that someone has to do the dirty work:But not everyone can be the shortstop. You can't have 9 starting pitchers. Somebody has to be the catcher. Somebody has to trudge out to the lonely post in right field. Otherwise, your team will get crushed. Similarly, we have all these medical students who want to be dermatologists and radiologists and plastic surgeons. Well guess what? We need more right fielders in medicine. We need more motivated medical students who wa...

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