Prescriptions for Change: PRR Explores the U.S. Primary Care Physician Shortage
About half of all physicians in the primary care specialty were age 55 or older in 2021, according to the Association of American Medical … Read More
Walgreens plans to open primary care practices in its stores and CVS’ similar announcement that it would be remaking hundreds of their stores to include primary care clinics reflects the nation’s growing need for health … Read More
There’s been a lot of research on aging physicians and their ability to still deliver competent medical care. With so many of the nation’s physicians continuing to skew older, according to the Journal of the … 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
The primary care physician shortage in the U.S. is blamed on many factors, including an aging population, physician burnout and new physicians seeking specialty practices because of higher pay. On that latter issue, researchers and think … Read More
Many Physician Retraining & Reentry (PRR) participants had very clear, sometimes obvious, reasons why they wanted to transition from a specialized practice to a general practitioner. PRR has enrolled a surgeon who no longer had the eyesight needed for surgery … Read More
Federally funded programs will add at least 2,300 new primary care practitioners by the end of 2015, but the funding for at least one of those programs is set to expire at the same time, … Read More
Again and again, we hear that the country has too few doctors, particularly for primary care. And Obamacare is supposed to make the shortage much worse in the coming years as more Americans become insured … Read More
Although total US medical school enrollment increased nearly 23% between 2000 and 2010, many of those newly minted physicians won’t choose primary care specialties nor will they settle in states with the most severe primary … Read More
