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6 reasons why it's getting harder to access primary care
Author(s)Jeffrey Bendix
A new study explores the reasons why obtaining primary care services is so difficult
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Only about 1 in 4 U.S. doctors now practice adult primary care, “a tipping point beyond which many Americans won’t be able to find a family doctor at all”
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