In The Primary Care Physician and Health Care Reform, Dr. Bob Brook and Dr. Roy T. Young explore central issues to the decline in primary care physicans nationally such as salary and scope of practice and offer possible solutions.

"Will expanding the scope of practice and increasing salaries motivate enough medical students to forsake careers in higher paying specialties? Or will the fascination of working at the cutting edge of medical technology still capture the minds and hearts of most medical students? The answer is unknown; however, it is certain that if the salary gap cannot be closed and the role of the primary care physician redefined in a powerful way, there is little hope of producing a health care system that provides high-quality affordable care to the US population."

Read the full article here at The Journal of the American Medical Association.