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Bookmark or Share- Physician Shortage - American Medical AssociationPhysician shortages can have nationwide, long-lasting effects on public health. The primary care physician shortage in the U.S. has become a growing concern in recent years, identified as a major barrier to accessing health care. However, the shortage is not limited to primary care physicians alone. There is also a physician shortage by specialty, including cardiology, dermatology and ...
- AMA president sounds alarm on national physician shortageWASHINGTON – In a national address today, American Medical Association President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., MPH, spotlighted the growing national physician shortage and corresponding health system in crisis. In remarks delivered at the National Press Club, Dr. Ehrenfeld outlined critical strains on physicians, including enormous administrative ...
- Doctor shortages are here—time to act, Drs. Harmon and Orlowski weigh ...Dr. Orlowski: Well, we talk about a worsening physician shortage but I want to make sure that people understand that there's a physician shortage today. And we actually work and utilize the federal government's numbers that come out of HRSA, which say that there is a shortage right now.
- Powerful Senate committee takes up physician shortageThe Association of American Medical Colleges projects that the U.S. will face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036 in primary and specialty care. Building upon prior efforts in Congress to boost the physician workforce, a bipartisan group of eight members of the Senate Finance Committee ...
- All hands on deck needed to confront physician shortage crisisWhile the physician shortage is a crisis today, there is reason to believe it’s going to get a lot worse unless we take immediate actions to address it,” AMA President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, said during an AMA webinar about what’s exacerbating the physician shortage crisis and what’s needed to fix it.
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