From today's BMJ an editorial[BMJ 2007;334 (16 June),] tells us that the US has the lowest percentage of primary care physicians, the highest percentage of population uninsured for primary care, and the lowest mean number of primary care visits per person per year. This will not be solved by training more doctors who will gravitate to the best paid specialties, but by changing the training to focus on primary care, along with medical school debt relief and practice support.
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