Dr Chisholm said that the independent pay review body - which recommends GP pay levels to the governmment - had "abjectly" failed to make any of the changes needed to attract new GPs into medicine.
And its purity and large surface area make it suitable for medical uses too: from aiding drug delivery to building new tissue for regenerative medicine.
Lyrica, a newmedicine for neuropathic pain, has not been launched because the Drug Enforcement Agency still has to make a decision about its classification for the drug.
But now a new study examining the country's obesity crisis says no amount of reform will be enough to makemedicine affordable if Americans don't also reform their eating habits.
"These tools make diagnosis at a distance much easier, " said Dr. Nicholas Genes, an emergency medicine professor at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine, who helped with TEDMED's smartphone physical.