Primary Care Applicants — They Get No Respect

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In the late 1960s it was conventional wisdom that physicians were in short supply and unevenly distributed according to geography and specialty.1 The shortage, if it ever really existed, was rapidly corrected, but geographic maldistribution — the relative dearth of doctors in rural areas and inner cities —persisted, and as Colwill articulates in this issue of the Journal , 2 specialty maldistribution, exemplified by an excessive number of specialists and a corresponding paucity of generalists, is getting worse. I agree with Colwill that the shortage of general physicians is not in the best interest of the American health care system and must . . .

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