General Practitioners
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Comment: Too much stick, not enough carrot
The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.
Comment: Take care over the next hill
What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?
When public healthcare trumps private
TB and HIV-infected patients who can’t pay for high-end medical insurance but can afford GP visits opt for state care, which offers better treatment.
Botox sans frontiers
Once minor aesthetic procedures, such as Botox injections and "fillers", had to be administered by a medical specialist: now my GP does them in betwee