(Source: The University of Mississippi Medical Center) Media Contact: Gary Pettus at 601-815-9266 or gpettus@umc.edu. We're like the canaries in the coal mine. For our patients' safety, there needs to be a revolution in medicine. Dr. Luke Lampton, Family Medicine physician Lampton The cost of operating Dr. Luke Lampton's family medicine clinic in Magnolia has doubled or tripled since 1999, he said, but his passion for medicine has paid an even higher price. 'Even after hiring a nurse practitioner,' Lampton said, 'we're spending less time with patients and more on a bureaucratic system of measures that has nothing to do with saving peoples' lives.' As chair of the Mississippi State Board of...
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