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How Cancer Doctors Failed Her | Hannah Fry

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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Is There a Relationship With a Primary Care Doctor?

I think you're making probably the best argument I've ever heard for getting a primary care doctor. Because what I see young folks doing these days is treating it like a store where they're like, oh, I have an ingrowned toenail. That's a surgical world by the way. But actually I realized that you are dealing with an invisible enemy that may or may not be there. And all those things can only be brought out when someone has continuity with a physician. "Every situation gets worse if you don't have good continuity," she says.

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