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Inside a physician’s 50-year-old journals, from a time when doctors made decisions for patients, not with them

One bit of optimism I have is about all of the modern efforts to transfer to models where doctors are part of teams—there are nurse practitioners and nutritionists and social workers who can maybe do some of the legwork and paperwork and other things they’re skilled at to at least theoretically free up the doctors to do more doctoring. At least in theory. That’s the cup half-full version.

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