Opinion: Primary care is experiencing physician shortages

Imagine a health care system where every time you want your annual checkup, you must see a cardiologist to get your heart checked, an ENT to get your ears and throat checked, a GI doc to get your abdomen checked, and so on and so forth. Sounds pretty terrible and needlessly expensive, right? This hypothetical dystopia, however, isn’t too far off from the direction that the American health care system is going.