Yale should produce more primary care physicians

Yale Medicine Magazine, 2008 - Winter

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Understanding Cancer: A Patient’s Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment, 2nd ed.
From the editor: Lessons from Uganda
Primary care is vanishing as a practice model
Yale should produce more primary care physicians
Gay men’s fears of long-term romance
Lewis’ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 4th ed.
Management of High-Risk Pregnancy: An Evidence-Based Approach, 5th ed.
Physicians’ Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual, 2007
Brain Tumors: Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
Soft-Tissue Surgery of the Craniofacial Region
Manual of Dermatologic Therapeutics: With Essentials of Diagnosis, 7th ed.
For the busy researcher, help from medical librarians with publishing papers
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A third party to speak for the terminally ill
What’s Toxic, What’s Not
Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know
Cell Biology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 2nd ed.
Pocket Guide to Chemotherapy Protocols, 4th ed.
Preventive Cardiology: Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
Out of Order: Poems
Seeking a national solution to health care for all
Speeding the pace of biomarker discovery
Second opinion

I would be truly impressed if Yale pursued the path of producing more primary care physicians. As a “liberal” institution of higher learning, where is the responsibility? Lifestyle is important but that was not what medicine was or is about. As for an ophthalmology attending seeing 40 to 60 patients in 10 hours, I am speechless. Who is teaching?

Harvey Davis, M.D., HS ’69
Virginia Beach, Va.

Primary care is vanishing as a practice model

Gay men’s fears of long-term romance

Yale should produce more primary care physicians

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