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Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2008;300(16):1872-1875.

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The United States faces a shortage of primary care physicians that could exceed 40 000 by 2025, according to a recent analysis by researchers from the University of Missouri and the Health Resources and Services Administration (Colwill JM et al. Health Aff [Millwood]. 2008;27[3]:232-241).

A projected shortage of primary care clinicians could mean long waits for patients and heavy burdens for physicians.

The analysis adds to a growing body of evidence that US medical schools are producing too few physicians to meet the demand for medical services. Its findings were supported by a second recent report by the National Association of Community Health Centers, which also predicts a substantial shortfall of primary care physicians and other frontline clinicians (http://www.nachc.com/client/documents/ACCESS%20Transformed%20full%20report.PDF). The reports emphasize that such a shortage is likely to disproportionately affect certain vulnerable populations, including the elderly, individuals who rely on community health centers, and people . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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