Primary care doctors struggling to survive

Relatively low earnings, rising overhead and overwhelming patient loads are sending veteran physicians into early retirement and driving medical students into better-paying specialties. The morning's last patient, a disabled woman on Medicare, trails her doctor into her office and confides that she doesn't have money for lunch. Tanyech Walford pulls out her billfold and hands her $3. It's money the doctor really doesn't have.

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