Primary Care Physician Survey

Rebecca Etz, PhD, co-director of The Larry A. Green Center (LGC) discusses the alarming findings from a survey, a collaboration between LGC and the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), that received nearly 1,000 responses from primary care professionals across the country.

“Rebecca is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University with expertise in qualitative research methods and design, primary care measures, practice transformation, and engaging stakeholders. She has spent the last fifteen years dedicated to learning the heart and soul of primary care. Her career has been shaped by iterative research cycles that expose and reflect on the tacit norms and principles of primary care in which clinicians, thought leaders, and patients are equally invested.

Her work has three main lines of inquiry: 1) bridging the gap between the business of medicine and the lived experience of the human condition, 2) making visible the principles and mechanisms upon which the unique strength of primary care is based, and 3) exposing the unintended, often damaging consequences of policy and transformation efforts applied to primary care but not informed by primary care concepts.”