The startling finding was that the average Medicare patient saw a total of seven doctors—two primary care physicians and five specialists—in a given year.

令人吃惊的发现是，医保患者一年内要看7名医生——2名初级保健医生和5名专科医生。

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Primary care physicians who refuse to compromise quality are either driven out of business or to cash-only practices, further contributing to the decline of primary care.

拒绝在质量上妥协的初级保健医生要么被赶出这个行业，要么只能接受现金，这进一步加剧了初级保健的衰落。

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Primary care physicians' views on U.S. health care.

初级治疗医师对于美国医疗保健的观点。

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But that may be hard to do ince primary care physicians earn much less than specialists.

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"That keeps pressure off the general practitioners, the primary care physicians, and the hospital doctors.

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With the shortage of primary care physicians, expanding the authority of nurse practitioners.

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Too often, even primary care physicians are on an island when it comes to patient care.

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It reminds us that it is primary care that is in shortage, not necessarily primary care physicians.

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People living with HIV require hospital monitoring, but considerable support is also provided by primary care physicians.

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