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Healthcare is undergoing both enormous change and positive innovation. But there is another longer-term health care stressor playing out today and looming large for the future: a critical shortage of physicians.
For years, experts in the United States have projected a physician shortage, and the pandemic certainly exacerbated existing shortages. But the outlook is even more serious today. Some of these trends are familiar, but others are new and exacerbating the situation. Addressing them requires collective action: What can we—as physicians and healthcare professionals—do about it?