Building a Stronger Specialty

Lee A. Resnick, MD, FAAFP The discipline of urgent care medicine remains in its developmental infancy. While the strong consumer-driven market lurching toward efficient and cost-effective health care delivery systems has supported astounding industry growth, our discipline continues to struggle to define itself. Like all new specialties, urgent care medicine has, in fits and starts, made efforts to evolve an identity, but despite early gains, it’s been an up and down effort. Most every urgent …

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