Practice Under Pressure : : Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century / / Timothy Hoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Hoff, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first centuryùtheir work, stresses, hopes, expectations, and values. Timothy Hoff supports this dialogue with secondary data, statistics, and in-depth comparisons that capture the changing face of primary care medicineùlarger numbers of younger, female, and foreign-born physicians.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Transformation of Primary Care in the United States -- Part I. The Work of Primary Care -- Chapter 2. A Typical Workday in Primary Care -- Chapter 3. How the Primary Care Workday Has Changed -- Chapter 4. Leaving Hospital Work Behind -- Chapter 5. The Routine and Nonroutine of Primary Care Work -- Part II. The People Doing Primary Care Work -- Chapter 6. Younger and Older Physicians in Primary Care -- Chapter 7. Women in Primary Care -- Chapter 8. International Medical Graduates in Primary Care -- Part III. Fixing Primary Care -- Chapter 9. The Medical Home: Primary Care Savior? -- Chapter 10. No Quick Fix: An Incremental Approach to Helping Primary Care -- Appendix. How the Study Was Conducted -- Notes -- Index