An excerpt from Patients in Peril: The Demise of Primary Care in America. The last 100 years have seen an astonishing drop in the percentage of American physicians who practiced primary care. In the early 1930s, 87% of private practice physicians were in general care; by the early 1960s, this percentage had dropped to 50%.
The demise of primary care in America originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
