Redeployment of Primary Care Workers During Pandemic: One Physician’s Look Back
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
The Pandemic Didn’t Cause the Doctor Deficit, but it Made the Situation Worse
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
Policies Impacting the Physician Shortage
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
The Physician Shortage and Minority Communities
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
Survey: Physicians Enjoy Temporary Assignments
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
Rural America: Health Care Underserved
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
Medicare and the Physician Shortage
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
8 key stats on the impending physician shortage
By Patsy Newitt | Becker’s ASC Review
The already looming physician shortage was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic — pushing physicians to plan for early retirement.
“I believe an aging physician population will adversely impact … Read More
To Get the Doctors We Need, Expand Their Opportunities to Train
By G. Richard Olds, Opinion Contributor | The Hill
America will face a shortfall of up to 124,000 doctors by 2034, according to alarming new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. This … Read More