tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post1095276376470965121..comments2024-03-28T22:28:39.087-07:00Comments on Medicine and Social Justice: "Uncomplicated" Primary Care?Josh Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10248920527894775520noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post-31859204765616544722009-12-08T06:19:58.290-07:002009-12-08T06:19:58.290-07:00Hi, Thank you so much for providing valuable infor...Hi, Thank you so much for providing valuable information. <a href="http://www.breastinfosite.com" rel="nofollow">breast health</a>yznsmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167184109807143291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post-57323564416874169732009-10-12T17:27:19.897-07:002009-10-12T17:27:19.897-07:00I would challenge Dr. Cooper (and the Federal expe...I would challenge Dr. Cooper (and the Federal experts developing medical home reimbursement rates based upon extraordinary IT requirements) on the value of efficiency in primary care. I would value the time spent reassuring healthy patients equally with time spent addressing the complex medical sequelae of late capitalism,or guessing the metabolic consequences of different HIV cocktails. Perinatal morbidity and mortality data, in the beginning, and in the end, are not functions of the presence or absence of primary care. They follow, as night day, race and privilege, caste and class, haves and have nots. We each want our doctor to listen, to care, and hopefully (however fantastically) to cure. And everyone should have one,even doctors.Bobby Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02754746304696148005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post-88788786112077513672009-10-08T14:37:24.755-07:002009-10-08T14:37:24.755-07:00This is a fantastic post--one of the best you'...This is a fantastic post--one of the best you've put up (which says a lot). I'm not sure exactly why, but it reminded me of Roger Cohen's op-ed in the NY Times on Monday (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05iht-edcohen.html?_r=1), which, like most all of his pieces, is great.Adam F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08417477099628442392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post-2488823020287289932009-10-08T09:45:01.573-07:002009-10-08T09:45:01.573-07:00Josh, thanks again for your insight and your willi...Josh, thanks again for your insight and your willingness to speak for so many of us. <br /><br />I wonder if it is time for primary care and especially family physicians to warn of the CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES of the thinking expressed by Dr. Cooper and his group. <br /><br />It needs to be challenged and challenged strongly. If lawmakers get a mixed or conflicting message the reform effort is doomed. <br /><br />I suggest a national conference and a day of "consideration" of the value of family medicine. Let family physicians take a day and have teach-ins, sit-ins or just take care of the uninsured for a day. <br /><br />We can invite Dr. Cooper to discuss this with Dr. Starfield and lets carry the discussion on C-span!Dr. Caryl Heatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17271482361161743002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post-78184546059057547222009-10-08T07:12:13.703-07:002009-10-08T07:12:13.703-07:00Terrific critique, Josh. These are just more nonse...Terrific critique, Josh. These are just more nonsense opinions from Dr. Cooper once again. I hope you submit your critique to the places-journals/newspapers-that publish his remarks. Call him out, Josh.Janice Benson, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06827865071040242180noreply@blogger.com