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Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here?

Mark Linzer and Sara Poplau
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2017, 30 (2) 127-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.02.170014
Mark Linzer
From the Office of Professional Worklife and Division of General Internal Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis MN.
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