1. The Shortage of Doctors in Rural Areas
... reduced schedules. Even though the average income for a physician in the U.S. fell by nine percent between 1993 and 2000, newly trained primary care residents were receiving at least three job offers, compared to newly trained specialty residents receiving at least four job offers (Nolan, 2002). COGME projection states that there will be a supply of 1,025,000 physicians in 2020. Their projection ... of the U.S. outpatient physicians, yet they perform about 199 million of the approximately 822 million visits that Americans make to their physicians each year (National Center for Health Sta...
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