LENGTH OF PATIENT’S MONOLOGUE, RATE OF COMPLETION, AND RELATION TO OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER: OBSERVATIONAL INTERVENTION STUDY IN PRIMARY CARE

I have prepared these reviews using an American computer, an American processor and American software: I don’t have any problem with that – it works, and that’s all that matters to me. However, their medical system stinks and the basis of this is the weakness of primary care. This is well demonstrated in Geyman’s paper, as well as the review in Academic Medicine– only 9.3% of graduates do a family practice residency. We can learn lessons from the USA about how not to do things. With the current regime in power expect things only to get worse.

Dominic Faux

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