A new twist on old news. While practically everyone with a vague association to healthcare delivery in this country knows that there is a primary care shortage, it is always refreshing to see fresh innovation to lure more talented docs to the specialty on the part of some medical schools and educational entities (…even hospitals):

[Johns Hopkins] has launched programs to bring cheap specialty care to the uninsured and primary care to those who tend to go to the emergency room. And [John ]Feldman’s [director of the school's Urban Health Residency Program] six-year residency program aims to annually produce four primary care physicians who eventually could become leaders in the field by opening a federally backed health center, directing a primary care clinic or becoming a city health commissioner.

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