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Coronavirus has created another kind of crisis for primary care doctors and their patients https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
I talked with @DaniaPal, who has chronic pain from an autoimmune condition, as she was driving up to Philly for a pain treatment because she couldn't get it done in DC: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
The squeeze on primary care puts people with chronic conditions at risk:
“Is maintaining your health … urgent care? Not something we usually put in the box of ‘urgent,’ but if we don’t take care of it, it’s going to get urgent or emergent.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
“Is maintaining your health … urgent care? Not something we usually put in the box of ‘urgent,’ but if we don’t take care of it, it’s going to get urgent or emergent.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
A doctor in Charlottesville: “This is a completely unprecedented event."
"Even for those people who understood that pandemics could occur, I don’t think anyone gave thought to what that would mean to being a physician in a small independent practice.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
"Even for those people who understood that pandemics could occur, I don’t think anyone gave thought to what that would mean to being a physician in a small independent practice.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
Primary care practices have seen their total visits drop by 50 percent during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Within my lifetime, I have not seen anything of this magnitude," says @Ateevm, who led a Harvard study on this: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
“Within my lifetime, I have not seen anything of this magnitude," says @Ateevm, who led a Harvard study on this: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
Increased telehealth is not nearly enough to offset the losses for primary care doctors:
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
The blunt take from @ASlavitt on coronavirus's toll:
“I could see a real decimating of independent primary care, and specialists impacted as well.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
“I could see a real decimating of independent primary care, and specialists impacted as well.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
Independent primary care docs are preparing for possibility they'll have to sell or join a larger system:
"We all recognize in the back of our minds, there’s a possibility we might not make it through this disruption to our practice." https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
"We all recognize in the back of our minds, there’s a possibility we might not make it through this disruption to our practice." https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
“The aftershocks on primary care will be huge. I’m terrified what we’ll see is left of our independent practices,” says @DaniaPal. “I fear a lot of provider deserts are going to be worsened.” https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
And guess what happens when there is more consolidation in primary care:
Costs go up and access goes down. All our health care problems are about to get worse.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
Costs go up and access goes down. All our health care problems are about to get worse.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis
