One of the country’s top chief medical officers gave his clinical care trends for 2022, and – not surprisingly – predicted that the physician shortage would become even more acute.
Dr. Eric Eskioglu, chief medical … Read More
Dr. Leonard Glass, a Physician Retraining & Reentry co-founder, says the idea for PRR began when he thought about “recycling” the potential pool of hundreds of thousands of physicians who were retired, near retirement or … Read More
Looking back to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one Chicago-based physician can clearly see how valuable “redeployment” of family and primary care physicians was to both the frontline health care of patients and preventative … Read More
By now, Dr. Lorna Breen’s story has become a rallying tale for despondent and burned-out physicians being pushed past the edge during the pandemic. After the New York emergency room physician who treated COVID-19 patients … Read More
The Association of American Medical College’s oft-cited annual physician shortage report squarely places the cause for the growing physician shortfall on more physicians leaving practice due to retirement or burnout in tandem with a growing … Read More
Noting the inequities exposed in U.S. health care by the COVID-19 pandemic, a California Health Report opinion article says that the physician shortage will only exacerbate the future health of our nation. Growing minority populations … Read More
Freedom and flexibility were cited as the two primary benefits of working temporary assignments as a physician, according to a recent survey. Other reasons physicians enjoy temporary assignments include pay rates and the opportunity … Read More
People who live in rural areas in the U.S. have more diabetes and coronary heart disease than those who live in urban areas. The population of people aged 65 and older is larger in rural … Read More
Citing a bottleneck created by the residency requirement for becoming a practicing physician, a recent article in Verywell Health takes an in-depth look at Medicare’s role in funding residency positions.
Verywell notes that 85% of … Read More
