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Posted by Elizabeth Cooney November 12, 2008 07:24 PM

The New England Journal of Medicine convenes experts in primary care in a video roundtable discussing ways to redesign the way healthcare is delivered, taught, and paid for.

"We have to make the job of primary care doable once again," says Dr. Thomas Lee, network president at Partners HealthCare System, who leads the discussion.

He is joined by Dr. Katharine Treadway of Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer of the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Allan Goroll, also of Mass. General.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.

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