Fixing the Nation’s Medical and Health systems.

This week’s the New England Journal of Medicine has a wonderful set of articles, viewable without a subscription, that suggest ways to fix the nation’s infrastructure based on the ecology of primary care, and the epidemiology of the major diseases that present to primary care physicians; as the problems besetting us have changed from acute infections of the young to chronic diseases of the aged. The Editorials are accompanied by an excellent video where 5 recognized leaders discuss the US medical and health care systems.