Why read Fixing the Primary Care Crisis?

Book cover of Fixing the Primary Care Crisis: Reclaiming the Patient-Doctor Relationship and Returning Healthcare Decisions to You and Your Doctor

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In this deeply researched yet controversial book, Stephen C. Schimpff, MD explains why our healthcare delivery system serves us so poorly and costs so much, and why government and insurer policy has not only failed to improve care delivery but has actually made it worse. Primary care physicians have been…

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1 author picked Fixing the Primary Care Crisis as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Hunter N. Schultz

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I found Fixing the Primary Care Crisis as I was researching the root cause of America’s healthcare problems. Dr. Schimpff shares keen, frontline insights into how we arrived at a crisis point. He dials in on time with the patient as a critical factor, and how primary care was devastated over many decades by government and insurance intrusion. That he became a medical mentor is another fortunate outcome from discovering his book. He helped refine my thinking and incorporated it into my book. Fixing the Primary Care Crisis is the first book I recommend for understanding what we have…

From Hunter's list on The best books on how being an expat taught me to loathe America’s healthcare system, and what could be done about it.