A call for more family physicians

By Derrick Z. Jackson | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | The Boston Globe

“…In his remarks to the National Academy of Sciences annual meeting yesterday, President Obama said ‘the greatest advances in medicine have come from scientific breakthroughs, whether the discovery of antibiotics, or improved public health practices, vaccines for smallpox and polio and many other infectious diseases, antiretroviral drugs that can return AIDS patients to productive lives, pills that can control certain types of blood cancers, so many others.’ The next great breakthrough, with great irony, will be finding the doctors to advance the advances….”…BS

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