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show first aired November 19, 2009
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The US is slowly continuing down the road to health insurance reform and many in the health care industry are realized that there may suddenly be millions more people looking for primary care doctors. On this week’s Health Show, we’ll talk about the state of primary care today...and where it might be a few years from now. We’ll also talk to a primary care doctor who is part of two groups that will have a big part in keeping the system afloat: women and foreign medical graduates. And we’ll hear about another group of providers who are getting some attention during the health care debate: midwives.
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PRIMARY CARE UNDER PRESSURE
You can call it your general practitioner, your family doctor or your primary care physician...the name is not important. What is important is that with the possibility of millions of American suddenly getting health insurance, we’re going to need a lot more of them. To find out more about the state of primary care in the US we’ve invited back Timothy Hoff, a professor of health policy and management at the University at Albany School of Public Health in Albany, New York. Tim is also the author of the new book Practice Under Pressure - Primary Care Physicians And Their Medicine in the Twenty First Century.
Dr. B
As the need for primary care physicians increases, the ranks are being fortified with many more women and medical doctors and students from overseas. I recently had a chance to talk with someone who fits both bills. You’ll usually find Dr. Ingrid Bermudez working with patients at Family Medicine of Mechanicville in northern New York state. A native of Columbia, Dr B, as her patients know her, came to the US after the violent death of father.
Health Reform And Midwives
Somewhere in the hundreds of pages of the health care reform bill is a provision that, while unnoticed by many, has one group of health care providers excited. The legislation calls for nurse midwives to be fully compensated for the work they do with new mothers before, during and after childbirth. Here to talk about this is Elizabeth Stein, a certified nurse midwife in private practice in Manhattan.
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