Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink

by Timothy J. Hoff

With family doctors increasingly overburdened, bureaucratized, and burned out, how can the field change before it's too late?

Over the past few decades, as American medical practice has become increasingly specialized, the number of generalists--doctors who care for the whole person--has plummeted. On paper, family medicine sounds noble; in practice, though, the field is so demanding in scope and substance, and the health system so...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421443007
• ISBN13: 9781421443003
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"