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How to cure shortage of primary care docs?

Updated at noon on Dec. 23

RARE BREED: Dr. Thomas Bledsoe, a general internist and primary care physician at Brown Medicine’s East Providence Primary Care, says finding a primary care doctor such as him has become difficult for people in need of a new physician. Bledsoe is also president of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
RARE BREED: Dr. Thomas Bledsoe, a general internist and primary care physician at Brown Medicine’s East Providence Primary Care, says finding a primary care doctor such as him has become difficult for people in need of a new physician. Bledsoe is also president of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

When the phone rings at East Providence Primary Care, chances are there is someone in search of a new doctor on the other end. It happens up to 15 times a day, but the response is the same: “I’m sorry, we’re not taking new patients right now. Call back in six months.” It’s become a

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