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The Medical Marketplace: Primary Care Physician
The insurance plan that is selected often influences the choice of a primary care physician who will provide periodic checkups, suggest preventive strategies, and respond when illness strikes. The primary care doctor recommends specialists when nece...
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The Fabric of Health: Measuring Public Health
In measuring the health of a group of people two statistics are most often cited: life expectancy and infant mortality. Life expectancy is a prediction of how long a person is likely to live. The life span of an average American in 1900 was just ove...