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- Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
summary
Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) workingin different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first centuryùtheir work, stresses, hopes, expectations, and values. Timothy Hoff supports this dialogue with secondary data, statistics, and in-depth comparisons that capture the changing face of primary care medicineùlarger numbers of younger, female, and foreign-born physicians.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-v
- Part I
- Part II
- Chapter 7: Women in Primary Care
- pp. 130-153
- Part III
- Appendix: How the Study Was Conducted
- pp. 211-219
- About the Author
- p. 236
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548357
Related ISBN(s)
9780813546759
MARC Record
OCLC
593315777
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No