Why the U.S. needs more preventive medicine and public health doctors
“What is that?” I was sitting in the emergency room during my emergency medicine rotation, chatting with my attending when he had asked me what residency program I was in. I told him I was actually doing two: family medicine and preventive medicine. Family medicine he had heard of, but preventive medicine? Only a confused look. And he is not the only one. In medical school, there was no specialty …
Why the U.S. needs more preventive medicine and public health doctors
