“I'M NOT INTERESTED IN GETTING MY PRODUCTIVITY UP, I'M INTERESTED IN HELPING PATIENTS.”

DR. ERIN MARTIN, PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN

Your body isn’t a car, but that’s how it’s handled when you take it into the doctor’s office. Instead of being treated as a person, your broken parts get fixed separately, one by one. We have a disease-care system, not a healthcare system. It rewards fragmented care over holistic care and specialists over general practitioners. The solution is: more primary care doctors who have the time to be patient-centered – doctors who are there to provide overall care, not piecemeal treatment.

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