PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hill, Elena
TI  - Slow Medicine
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.04.200477
DP  - 2021 Jul 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 871--873
VI  - 34
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/4/871.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/4/871.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2021 Jul 01; 34
AB  - This is an opinion piece that examines the dichotomy of “fast medicine” (which involves high medical use and spending) and what I refer to as “slow medicine”. It discusses ethical questions around which of these two frameworks really confers better “health” to patients – using examples from a real patient scenario of mine who was considering undergoing a relatively high-risk carotid endarterectomy. It then re-affirms the importance of primary care to conferring health and the ultimate value of primary care, or “slow medicine”. I believe it is a timely discussion as we continue to advocate for more primary care resources in our health care system.