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Primary care has the opposite problem right now. Practices are closing faster than new ones are opening, and doctors are leaving the profession faster than new
by nerdponx 2y ago
Primary care has the opposite problem right now. Practices are closing faster than new ones are opening, and doctors are leaving the profession faster than new doctors are joining. There is an actual shortage of primary care docs.
- otoburb 2y agoGiven the rise of Physican Assistants and Nurse Practitioners and their expanding scope of (even independent) practice across various states, specifically to address this growing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs), it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that fewer potential physicians choose family medicine as that's the first specialty that seems most likely to be addressed by PAs and NPs.