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Big doctoring in America : profiles in primary care
- Title
- Big doctoring in America : profiles in primary care / Fitzhugh Mullan.
- Author
- Mullan, Fitzhugh.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002], ©2002.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xx, 255 pages : portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Mullan traveled the United States interviewing dozens of primary care practitioners - family physicians, internists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants - about their lives and their work. He shows how, during the last forty years, the primary care movement has emerged, built on the principles of "big doctoring" - coordinated, comprehensive care over time."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 5
- Uniform Title
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 5.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-246) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Primary Care Roots -- 2. The New GPs: The Family Physician Comes of Age -- Eugene McGregor, M.D.: a Legacy of General Practice -- Connie Adler, M.D.: Living Rural Medicine -- Neil Calman, M.D.: Urbaqn Warrior -- 3. Roots Rediscovered: The Internist and the Pediatrician as Generalists -- Beach Conger, M.D.: Caretaker and Contrarian -- Linda Headrick, M.D.: Seeking a Common Language in Primary Care -- Selma Deitch, M.D., M.P.H.: Children First -- 4. The New Clinicians: Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants -- Therese Hidalgo, C.F.N.P.: Proud to Be a Nurse -- Carl Toney, P.A.: Building a New Profession -- Holly Gerlaugh, F.N.P., P.A.-C.: A One-Woman Merger -- 5. The System Doctors: Managed Care and Primary Care -- Sam Ho, M.D.: Idealist, Innovator, Entrepreneur -- Sallyann Bowman, M.D.: A Philadelphia Story -- Gwen Wagstrom Halaas, M.D., M.B.A.: Evidence-Based Doctoring -- 6. The Quixote Factor: Generalists Doing Special Battle -- William Kapla, M.D.: Life and Death in San Francisco -- Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O.: Ground Breaker -- Janelle Goetcheus, M.D.: Doctor Succor -- 7. Building a Better Future: The Case for Primary Care.
- ISBN
- 0520226704 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001005492
- OCLC
- ocm47923453
- SCSB-5265373
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries