Saturday, August 08, 2009

Why Primary Care Has Faile

Fumbled handoffs can lead to medical errors

Martin Were, M.D., is a Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine.Poor communication of the outcomes of medical tests whose results are pending at the time of a patient's hospital discharge is common and can lead to serious medical errors in...

The problem here is that we have engineered internists and fam dics OUT of the healthcare system except as triage agents. The idea that a system can mange a case, rather than a personal doc is stupid.

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