Beverly Tchang, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, shared a post on X:
“Thankful to JAMA for sharing my Viewpoint on Primordial Care. I’ve spent a long time wondering about where my patients are and who is taking care of those who are not my patients, especially when trust in medical and publichealth institutions is fragile. Primordial care has been taking care of us/you.
It has emerged and grown in the vacuum left by disempowered medical systems. Everyone engages in primordial care as part of their personal health journey. I google (or ChatGPT) symptoms too and crowdsource advice from social circles. Is this good or bad? Primordial care allows us to self-direct care without traditional expertise, but it is also a space of high risk-tolerance innovation. I think primordial care has been an unnamed force shaping healthcare today and deserves attention and discussion.
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