Awesome, "canary-in-the-coal-mine"-esque piece. How can we expect to train competent and compassionate primary care physicians when this is the reality? "The future of primary care is here with me, stuck in a 100-year-old process that doesn’t allow us a moment to hone the skills that make a truly competent primary care physician. The skill set we acquire doesn’t lend itself to a primary care career where answers are not black and white or as simple as filling in the right bubble on an exam. But we have to survive, so we develop the skills that are presented to us, and in the 'process,' many of us fall off the path to primary care, feeling uncomfortable in a profession that requires a skill set that we do not get to cultivate in medical school."
