Wellness Corner

How old are you going to be in the year 2025? Chances are that you're going to be at an age where you're at least moderately concerned about health and medical issues. As a result, it may cause you some concern to find out that experts are predicting a massive shortage of primary care doctors in the United States by that time.

It is believed that there will be over 40,000 less primary care physicians and general internists than are going to be needed in the U.S. at this time. This is due in part to increasing demand for doctors but is due primarily to the fact that our medical system rewards doctors who specialize and not those who provide general care.

This same concern was raised back in the 1960's but then there was a steady increase in the number of general doctors after that time. Recently we have once again seen a decline in general practitioners which could lead to a revival of this important health concern.

Learn more about this issues here.

Question of the Day: Is it of concern that we may have significantly more specialist doctors that general doctors in the near future?

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