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Doctor Shortage

Adding Docs Will Boost Health Bill

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Physicians, Federal Budget Deficit, Health Spending, Doctor Shortage, Physician Shortage, Politics News
Jim Jaffe

While much of Washington worries about how to constrain Medicare costs, two contrarian legislators want the program to spend $1 billion more annually to fund residency training for new doctors.

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A Radical Idea to Solve the Primary Care Physician Shortage

Lorie Eber | Posted 05.12.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Primary Care Physician, Doctor Shortage, Primary Care Crisis, Primary Care, Primary Care Shortage, Family Doctor, Primary Care Doctor, Physicians, Doctors Shortage, Physician Shortage, Doctors, Health News, Healthy Living News
Lorie Eber

Why not eliminate this anachronistic charade of the general practitioner and use nurse practitioners and physician assistants to fill the gap? This is already happening in rural areas, which sometimes lack even a single primary care physician.

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Naturopathic Doctors Fill in Gap in Physician Shortage

Amy Rothenberg, ND | Posted 02.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Integrative Medicine, Doctor Shortage, Naturopathic Doctor, Naturopathic Medicine, Naturopathic-Medicine, Naturopathic Physician, Physician Shortage, Physician Shortages, Naturopathic Doctors, Natural Health, Healthy Living News
Amy Rothenberg, ND

With the current and impending shortage of MDs and the increasing openness to natural medicine in the general population, NDs should be high on the list of providers to bridge the gap in our imminent provider shortage.

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WATCH: Are Baby Boomers Causing Doctor Shortage?

Posted 11.20.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Baby Boomers, Obama Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Reform, post50, Doctor-Shortage, Doctor-Shortages, Post50 Health, Video, Fifty News

Baby boomers seeking a doctor's appointment may have to wait months -- even if their condition is serious -- due to a shortage of doctors that's growi...

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Healthcare Momentum: Our Shared Responsibility

Cyrus Massoumi | Posted 12.04.2012 | Technology
Read More: Doctor Shortage, Healthcare System, Physicians, Health IT, Doctors, Patients, Healthcare Reform, Health Technology, Health Care, Healthcare, Technology News
Cyrus Massoumi

Entrepreneurs should think about how to disrupt healthcare -- and then think about it some more. The startup world is full of thoughtful, brilliant people who will are well positioned to be successful in anything they apply themselves to.

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The Health Care Crisis No One Is Talking About

Cyrus Massoumi | Posted 08.12.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Shortage of Doctors, Doctor Shortage Problem, Physicians, Physician Shortage, Health Care, Doctor Shortage, Doctors, Health Care Providers, Doctor Deficit, Physician Shortage Problem, Healthy Living News
Cyrus Massoumi

The physician shortage problem is well-documented and should not come as a surprise to anyone. But while a scarcity of gasoline or smartphones would grip the nation, this far more dangerous shortage has drawn relatively little attention.

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When Will Washington Wake Up?

H. Danny Weaver | Posted 08.08.2012 | College
Read More: Doctor Shortage, Doctor Training, Doctors, Health Care, Health Care Costs, College News
H. Danny Weaver

With an anticipated shortage of 65,000 physicians by 2015 and 32 million new Americans acquiring health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we are seeing the numbers that don't add up.

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A New Form of Health Care Rationing

Steve Jacob | Posted 04.29.2012 | Politics
Read More: Doctor Shortage, Primary Care Crisis, Health Reform, Primary Care Doctors, Primary Care Doctor Shortage, Primary Care Physicians, Politics News
Steve Jacob

The new health reform law is expected to create 32 million more insured Americans. However, an insurance card will not mean much to patients without providers to care for them.

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Doctor Shortage? No Problem

Jim Jaffe | Posted 09.10.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Health Insurance Reform, Medicare Advantage, Doctor Shortage, Health Care, Doctor Shortages, Medicare Reform, Politics News
Jim Jaffe

In medicine, supply creates demand. Show me an area with more hospital beds and I'll show you one with higher hospital utilization that doesn't improve population health status.

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Primary-Care Doctor Shortage May Undermine Health Care Reform Efforts

Washington Post | Ashley Halsey III | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Doctor Shortage, Doctors, Health Care, Primary Care, Health Care Overhaul, Politics News

As the debate on overhauling the nation's health-care system exploded into partisan squabbling this week, virtually everyone still agreed on one point...

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A Kick in the Career: Becoming a Doctor? That is so Dial-Up!

Thomas Stern | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Doctor Shortage, Medical Careers, Economy, Job Market, Calling, Doctors, Hmos, Health Care, Internal Medicine, Business News
Thomas Stern

Increasingly, the concept of a "calling" seems to only exist in sports or the arts. Nike says "just do it," the implication being that you have to, you're driven to.

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