Big doctoring in America : profiles in primary care / / Fitzhugh Mullan.

• Superior document: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 5
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Mullan, Fitzhugh.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 5.
• Physical Description: xx, 256 p. :; ports.

Table of Contents

Primary care roots -- The new GPs, the family physician comes of age -- Eugene McGregor, M.D., a legacy of general practice -- Connie Adler, M.D., living rural medicine -- Neil Calman, M.D., urban warrior -- Roots rediscovered, the internist and the pediatrician as generalists -- Beach Conger, M.D., caretaker and contrartian -- Linda Headrick, M.D., seeking a common language in primary care -- Selma Deitch, M.D., M.P.H., children first -- The new clinicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants -- Therese Hidalgo, R.N., F.N.P., proud to be a nurse -- Carl Toney, P.A., building a new profession -- Holly Gerlaugh, F.N.P./P.A.-C., a one woman merger -- The system doctors, managed care and primary care -- Sam Ho, M.D., idealist, innovator, entrepreneur -- Sallyann Bowman, M.D., a Philadelphia story -- Gwen Wagstrom Halaas, M.D., M.B.A., evidence based doctoring -- The quixote factor, generalists doing special battle -- William Kapla, M.D., life and death in San Francisco -- Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., ground breaker -- Janelle Goetcheus, M.D., doctor succor -- Building a better future, the case for primary care.