Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in primary care is widely encouraged, however, while medical students have a favourable attitude towards IPC, this attitude is less favourable when they reach the post-graduate level. A review of the literature on the characteristics of interprofessional primary care teams shows that while the positive effects of IPC are relatively clear on the care processes, they are much less clear with respect to patient health outcomes. A third paper studies the annual rate of family medicine visits and shows no association with mortality or hospital admissions rates. A final article, from China, looks at the idea of changing patients' perceptions of expected waiting times in order to improve their satisfaction with the health care system. The results could be extrapolated to our Western systems!