TY  - GEN
T1  - Big doctoring in America : profiles in primary care
T2  - California/Milbank books on health and the public ;
A1  - Mullan, Fitzhugh
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm55532013
AB  - The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later part of the twentieth century, however, saw a rebirth of the idea of the GP in the form of primary care practitioners. In this engrossing collection of oral histories and provocative essays about the past and future of generalism in health care, Fitzhugh Mullan--a pediatrician, writer, and historian--argues that primary care is a fascinating, important, and still endangered calling. In conveying the personal voices of primary care practitioners, Mullan sheds light on the political and economic contradictions that confront American medicine.Mullan interviewed dozens of primary care practitioners--family physicians, internists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants--asking them about their lives and their work. He explains how, during the last forty years, the primary care movement has emerged built on the principles of "big doctoring"--coordinated, comprehensive care over time. This book is essential reading for understanding core issues of the current health care dilemma. As our country struggles with managed care, market reforms, and cost containment strategies in medicine, Big Doctoring in America provides an engrossing and illuminating look at those in the trenches of the profession.
OP  - 255
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - R729.5.G4 M85 2002eb
SN  - 9780520938410
SN  - 0520938410
SN  - 0520900839
SN  - 9780520900837
SN  - 159734494X
SN  - 9781597344944
SN  - 9780520226708
SN  - 0520226704
SN  - 141750837X
SN  - 9781417508372
KW  - Primary care (Medicine) : United States.
KW  - Family medicine.
KW  - Primary care (Medicine)
KW  - Primary health care.
KW  - Family Practice
KW  - Primary Health Care
KW  - United States
KW  - Soins de santé primaires : États-Unis.
KW  - Médecine familiale.
KW  - Soins de santé primaires.
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS : Health Care Issues.
KW  - MEDICAL : Public Health.
KW  - MEDICAL : Health Policy.
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS : Diseases : General.
KW  - MEDICAL : Diseases.
KW  - MEDICAL : Health Care Delivery.
KW  - Primary health care
KW  - Family medicine
KW  - Gezondheidszorg.
ER  -