Coping with the Approaching Doctor Glut
- 3 May 1979
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 300 (18) , 1047-1049
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197905033001811
Abstract
Although increasing evidence suggests that there will be a surfeit of physicians in this country within the next three decades, many doctors deny the possibility. Many others believe that new restrictions on the entry of physicians trained abroad — as a result of the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 (PL 94–484) — will obviate a doctor glut.In 1950, the number of people per active physician in the United States was approximately 735. In 1980, there will be one active physician (M.D. or D.O.) per 500 persons; at the projected rate of increase in physician supply, that ratio . . .Keywords
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