New internists are avoiding primary care assiduously. Internal medicine residency provides abundant options for its graduates. We can understand the forces driving subspecialty choice through simple observation over the years. Family medicine training provides a broad overview of medicine, pediatrics, ob-gyn, sports medicine, psychiatry, etc. Internal medicine training provides depth in adult medicine. While family medicine and internal medicine […]

Doctors can tell many tales of what they term as a difficult encounter.  Just as many patients can recall doctors whom they would say are difficult to work with as well. Patients deemed difficult included those with more than five symptoms, severe symptoms or an underlying mental disorder or were less functional. These patients were […]