Practice under pressure [[electronic resource] ] : primary care physicians and their medicine in the twenty-first century / / Timothy Hoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456847903321
• Autore: Hoff Timothy <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-280-49342-9; 9786613588654; 0-8135-4835-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Collana: Critical issues in health and medicine
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Primary care (Medicine) - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The transformation of primary care in the United States -- A typical workday in primary care -- How the primary care workday has changed -- Leaving hospital work behind -- The routine and nonroutine of primary care work -- Younger and older physicians in primary care -- Women in primary care -- International medical graduates in primary care -- The medical home : primary care savior? -- No quick fix : an incremental approach to helping primary care.
• Sommario/riassunto: Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first centuryùtheir work, stresses, hopes, expectations, and values. Timothy Hoff supports this dialogue with secondary data, statistics, and in-depth comparisons that capture the changing face of primary care medicineùlarger numbers of younger, female, and foreign-born physicians.