Normally antagonistic to physicians, here’s a nice change from the NY Times detailing the crisis that is affecting primary care and cognitive medicine. It even takes a jab against one of it’s pet themes, universal coverage:

There is a crisis in medicine today, and it will not be fixed by any candidate’s proposal to provide health insurance for the 45 million Americans now without it. In fact, an increase in insured Americans could make it worse.

Of course, that’s nothing new to regular readers here.

One interesting point made is that the best, most humanitarian, doctors are leaving the system for cash-only or concierge practices.

What does that imply about the doctors who are left? That they’re happy with the 5-minute visits? That they’re at the lower end of the humanitarian spectrum?