Providers Shortages in the Health Care Industry

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This paper discusses how the baby boomer generation is preparing for retirement and how, as a result, in that retirement there will be a significant shortage in American physicians. This paper further discusses international medical graduates, as well as minority physicians and the complications that arise for these populations.

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"In the decades of the 1960s and 1970s the United States believed that there was an abundance of physicians. According to USA Today, and author, Dennis Cauchon, this was a true assertion (2005, p. 1A). However, what the United States apparently failed to realize was that many of the doctors who practiced medicine during that period were part of the "baby boomer" generation, and that one day they would all retire. Current research indicates that by the year 2016 thousands of physicians will begin to retire in the United States, and that medical school training statistics indicate there will not be enough doctors trained to cover the shortage that will occur (Cauchon, 2005, p. 1A). Yet, many states contend that there is a current physician shortage in the United States, that affects hospitals, rural areas, and specialty areas (Cauchon, 2005, p. 1A). "

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