Primary care physicians must care for more and more patients, with more and more chronic conditions, in less and less time, for which they are compensated far less than subspecialists. They must absorb increasing volumes of medical information and complete more paperwork than ever, as they try to function in a poorly coordinated health care system. As a result, their ranks are thinning. In a roundtable discussion experts in primary care and related policy explore the crisis, as well as possible solutions for training, practice, compensation, and systemic change.
