The wife explains there's no family doctor all her husband's doctors are cancer specialists. "You mean like a family doctor?" she asks. The question vexes the patient, so he looks at his wife. The senior physician by the patient's bedside asks him the name of his regular doctor. He has a rare kind of pancreatic cancer that has spread to his liver. A wealthy architect in his early fifties lies in bed at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Brendan Reilly's memoir finds the decrease in the number of primary care physicians especially worrisome. Of the many challenges modern medicine faces, Dr.
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