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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn 'Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink,' management Professor Timothy J. Hoff depicts a field in crisis amid a system trending toward 'transactional,' volume-driven, ever more 'balkanized' care. The practitioner perspective illuminates a system antithetical to the preventive care that is family medicine's stock-in-trade, and Hoff's observations about the missteps behind the field's malaise are incisive. This emphasis will also serve to impart a sense of agency to the book's professional readers — that redemption lies in setting their house in order.
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San Francisco ChronicleHoff, professor of management, health care systems, and health policy at Northeastern University, investigates the specialty of family medicine through archival research and interviews conducted with practicing family physicians....An excellent book.
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Choice (American Library Association)[Hoff] piec[es] out the cognitive dissonance of practicing family medicine in a broken health care system.
—Lalita Abhyankar,
Health AffairsTable of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Searching for the Family Doctor
Chapter 2. Poor Soil for Growing Generalists: Family Doctors versus the Health System
Chapter 3. Altruists and Accidental Doctors: Why They Become (Family) Doctors
Chapter 4. Saying Goodbye to the General Doctor
Chapter 5. Saying Hello to the New and Improved Family Doctor
Chapter 6. The Struggle to Be a True Believer as a Family Doctor
Chapter 7. The Realists: Family Doctors Charting Their Own Course
Chapter 8. The Bill Comes Due: Family Doctors' Struggle for Relevancy
Chapter 9. A Top-Ten List for Saving Family Doctors
Appendix. A Note on the Research
References
Index
