Primary Care Crisis

A Vital Part of Healthcare Reform: Change How We Educate Our Doctors

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

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Dr. John Neustadt

Training doctors to uncover and treat the underlying causes of disease could eliminate much of the unnecessary reliance on pharmaceuticals and reduce their devastating, and sometimes deadly, side effects.

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Healthcare Reform: Our Great Opportunity to Fix Primary Care Medicine

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

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Dr. John Neustadt

I believe that in order to fully fix our healthcare system, we must focus on reforming primary care medicine in this country.

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Corporate Profit Continues to Define Health Care Reform & the U.S. Race to the Bottom

Michele Swenson | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Michele Swenson

Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Inflated administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans' health dollars.

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