http://www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com/blog/2009/06/16/specialization-in-health-care-means-more-cost-to-the-system/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:24:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com/blog/2009/06/16/specialization-in-health-care-means-more-cost-to-the-system/comment-page-1/#comment-10419 Cheryl BryantBruce, M.D. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:49:34 +0000 http://www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com/blog/2009/06/16/specialization-in-health-care-means-more-cost-to-the-system/#comment-10419 As someone who was trained in primary care and has delivered primary care and preventive medicine to my patients for 20 years, I am not in agreement that specialization of labor in health care does result in better health care. When healthcare gets too fragmented and the right hand does not know what the left is doing, medical errors can occur. Medical errors can be expensive. They can cost a LIFE! Additionally, if patients are being managed and educated by primary care physicians with a preventive health/ wellness management approach, then we can for the most part prevent them from getting sick in the first place, which definitely results in huge savings in health care. As someone who was trained in primary care and has delivered primary care and preventive medicine to my patients for 20 years, I am not in agreement that specialization of labor in health care does result in better health care. When healthcare gets too fragmented and the right hand does not know what the left is doing, medical errors can occur. Medical errors can be expensive. They can cost a LIFE! Additionally, if patients are being managed and educated by primary care physicians with a preventive health/ wellness management approach, then we can for the most part prevent them from getting sick in the first place, which definitely results in huge savings in health care.

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