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Boston Doctor Suggests Ways to Ease the Crisis in Primary Care Medicine

Aired on Tuesday, May 15th
Aired on Tuesday, May 15th

The crisis in primary care medicine is becoming more evident every day. Long wait times for an appointment, practices closed to new patients, and long waiting room times remind us that primary care physicians are being stretched. Despite record enrollments in American medical schools, however, fewer doctors are choosing primary care as their focus. On this edition of StudioTulsa, Boston General Internist Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer offers his solutions to this worrisome trend through innovations in how primary care is delivered, how new doctors are educated, and how primary care is valued within the medical system. Dr Morris-Singer is the President and founder of Primary Care Progress, a network of providers, policy professionals, and advocates for better and abundant primary medical care. He shares some of his observations about the crisis in primary care, and suggests ways to alleviate the shortage.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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