Letter: Primary medical care.

Letter from . . . Chicago: Primary health-care crises.

1267 small homes with people with other handicaps and that elderly epileptics whose condition does not warrant hospital care should be placed in local authority homes for the elderly. A geriatric patient with severe epilepsy would not be best served in a geriatric ward or a district general hospital, where it is doubtful that his special needs would be met. I am quite certain that epileptics re...

manpower for primary medical care in iran

iran is a large country with a total area of 1,645,000 square kilometers. the country’s population is estimated at about 31 millions. there is an uneven distribution of the population, varying from 2 to 50 per square kilometer. sixty per cent of the total population (18 millions) is living in nearly 66,000 small and large village’s scattered throughout the country. a total of 10,000 physicians ...

Primary medical care in Irish prisons

BACKGROUND An industrial dispute between prison doctors and the Irish Prison Service (IPS) took place in 2004. Part of the resolution of that dispute was that an independent review of prison medical and support services be carried out by a University Department of Primary Care. The review took place in 2008 and we report here on the principal findings of that review. METHODS This study utilis...

Training pediatricians for primary medical care.

Large Independent Primary Care Medical Groups.

PURPOSE In the turbulent US health care environment, many primary care physicians seek hospital employment. Large physician-owned primary care groups are an alternative, but few physicians or policy makers realize that such groups exist. We wanted to describe these groups, their advantages, and their challenges. METHODS We identified 21 groups and studied 5 that varied in size and location. W...