When Andrew Morris-Singer [1]was in his fourth year of medical school his mother's lungs stopped working.
She was put into a medically induced coma because of an atypical pneumonia, a condition that he said would likely have been caught if she had a "comprehensivist," a primary care physician who coordinated her care instead of several specialists.
Morris-Singer's mother survived. Today, he uses her case to illustrate one of the fundamental challenges in our healthcare system.
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February 10, 2015
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