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>>Davis "Mac" Stephen: I think we all develop some interest in primary care based on the
experiences we have growing up. Now that I'm here and we talk about primary care in a more
academic sense, in a more theoretical way, I get to see why Dr. McGowan back in Arkansas
where I'm from was as amazing a physician as he is. I can remember times thinking that
Dr. McGowan is as much of a family member as he is a physician to us. And so if I could
emulate his style and emulate how important he's been to us, then I'll be very satisfied
with the career I have.
You get to know a patient like you would your own family in a lot of ways in a relationship
that's much more longitudinal, much more meaningful than most other specialty positions can offer.
And I think with the innovations that are being brainstormed right now, are being tested
right now, we'll see that the physician is able to practice that kind of medicine more
and more in the future, a more personal intimate relationship with patients.
In the current system, probably more accurately the older system that's on the way out, primary
care was a big hassle that didn't allow physicians to practice the kind of medicine that they
really wanted to, but we're lucky to have primary care physicians here at Harvard who
see the direction that primary care is going and how much potential the field offers for
anyone who enters medicine.
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