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November 2008

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Report Highlights Practice Hassles

Patient-Centered Medical Home Would Ease Burden on Primary Care Practices, Say AAFP, ACP

(11/26/2008, 3:00 p.m.)  --  A recently released survey by the Boston-based Physicians' Foundation paints a distressing picture. It describes widespread unhappiness with the current practice environment among primary care physicians. So much so that nearly half of those surveyed said they planned to cut back on their patient panels or leave practice entirely within the next three years -- a prospect that would exacerbate existing access problems for health care consumers. More