Quick Quote

“If we sent 30 percent of the doctors in this country to Africa, we might raise the level of health on both continents.”

Elliott Fisher,
physician and researcher
(as quoted in The Atlantic)

The article notes that in the U.S., the quality of healthcare is better in areas that do not have a high ratio of specialists to general practitioners. It’s not that the specialists are bad doctors, just that there’s a lack of coordination in calling on their services.

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