State of the State RI

Guest: John Machata, MD, family doctor WickfordFamilyMedicine.weebly.com
Host: Richard August Time: 30 minutes
This interview with Dr. Machata echoes and confirms what various medical practitioners have written in local newspapers and stated repeatedly on previous interviews on this show: Rhode Island medical practitioners are significantly disadvantaged; are leaving the state and in some cases leaving medical practice altogether. The result is a shortage of family/primary care doctors in RI. Dr. Machata discusses how consolidation; corporate health care; government regulation; physician specialty; and more are impacting medical practitioners in a highly negative and counterproductive way. His comments are another wake-up call that is becoming louder as more and more medical practitioners speak out.

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State of the State RI

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State of the State is a public access television show produced in Rhode Island. Its purpose is to promote, in a non-partisan manner, the civic awareness of the general public; to promote greater civic participation and the exercise of political citizenship…


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State of the State is a public access television show produced in Rhode Island. Its purpose is to promote, in a non-partisan manner, the civic awareness of the general public; to promote greater civic participation and the exercise of political citizenship by using the television show as a means to educate and to inform the public.

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