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Kudos to Dr. Bujold. Not because of surviving being hacked, but because of what we see when we read between the lines. It is well known that small and private practices provide very good work, superb access, and superior continuity. Among other things in this article about being hacked, here’s a physician who has been at this for his entire career; two providers are supporting four other staff members - this is not easy; he describes a plethora of interfaces with practice management, data reports, the cloud, ACO’s, EMR‘s, etc.. Only the sturdy can do this. I managed it for 16 years. Hospital policies and regulations from all sides are forcing doctors to employment, which has been a disaster for primary care. I urge our professional organizations to take a good hard look at providing what I would even call a "kit" to open and run practices/support to set up and run a practice, needs to be far better than minimal checklist and expensive consultants that we have now. Primary care is dying in this country and is assaulted from all sides. Kudos to Dr B!