{"id":11704,"date":"2018-10-09T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11704"},"modified":"2018-10-09T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:10:36","slug":"spurred-by-convenience-millennials-often-spurn-the-family-doctor-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11704","title":{"rendered":"Spurred By Convenience, Millennials Often Spurn The \u2018Family Doctor\u2019 Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sandra G. Boodman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Brown doesn\u2019t have a primary care doctor \u2014 and the peripatetic 23-year-old doesn\u2019t want one.<\/p>\n<p>Since his graduation last year from the University of San Diego, Brown has held a series of jobs that have taken him to several California cities. \u201cAs a young person in a nomadic state,\u201d Brown said, he prefers finding a walk-in clinic on the rare occasions when he\u2019s sick. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/spurred-by-convenience-millennials-often-spurn-the-family-doctor-model\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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