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Physician Shortage is About Priorities

- June 7, 2017

Despite the increased demand for healthcare, the American educational system isn’t responding by producing many more doctors. The American Association of Medical Colleges expects that in 2025, we’ll be about 46,000 to 90,000 doctors short of where we need to be. That means we’ll have to look into how to make more doctors to fill the physician shortage, or, alternatively, how to need fewer doctors in the first place.

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