Primary care physicians try to give it their all, until they can’t. It’s time to flip the teamwork archetype
Mhis colleague, Skip, was the kind of primary care physician I always wanted to be. He could riff on assessing a patient with new joint or liver inflammation like an improvising jazz musician. He could discern a familiar eruption in the most confusing plumes of hot, angry bumps. When I had lab results that upset …