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Competing Priorities and ComorbiditiesSo Much to Do and So Little Time
Thomas L. Schwenk, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(3):238-239.
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THERE IS a toddler's toy that reminds me of what a typical day in a family practice office feels like. The toy has several large holes in a flat piece of wood through which cute little plastic creatures pop up in seemingly random and unexpected order (at least it seems that way if you are 3 years old). The object of the game is to use a mallet to whack the little creature back into its hole, when another little creature suddenly pops up. A 3-yearold can spend seemingly endless hours whacking away with the mallet, just as family physicians spend a practice lifetime solving one medical problem only to find another one popping up. The analogy can be extended further^if you look underneath the board, you will find that all of the creatures are connected, such that knocking one down is guaranteed to push another one up. Now I
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Author Affiliations
University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor
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