Allan H, Goroll, M.D., an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital writing in JAMA, denounces using the word “providers” for primary-care physicians.
He concludes:
“The growing demand for primary care and recognition of its central role in rebuilding the U.S. health care system require strengthening support for primary care and enhancing respect for the work of those who deliver it. It is time to cease referring to and treating primary care clinicians (as well as all other physicians and health care practitioners) as “providers” and address and relate to them as the highly trained professionals they are.”
