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How to Thrive in a Physician Shortage: Opportunities and Challenges
As we enter 2025, the healthcare industry is grappling with a significant challenge: a growing physician shortage. This shortage, driven by an aging population, increasing demand for healthcare services, and a wave of retirements among current phy…
New Projections: 37K to 124K Physician Shortage by 2034
A new report projects the U.S. will experience a shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034. What’s driving the shortage, other than COVID-19?
NP Workforce, Pay Has Boomed Since 2010
Nurse practitioners have long been touted as a viable solution to the U.S. physician shortage, and it seems as though they are flooding the workforce.
Physicians vs. Advanced Practitioners: Where Do You Stand?
A battle has been brewing between advanced practitioners seeking to expand their scope of practice and the physicians who oppose them. Where do you stand?
Yet Another Physician Speaks Out Against PAs, NPs
As the physician shortage worsens, there is no shortage of physicians speaking out against the idea of PAs and NPs being comparable substitutes.
More Doctors on the Way, as Med School Enrollment Exceeds Goals
As the physician shortage continues, it’s promising to know that medical school enrollment has outpaced growth goals. But the crisis isn’t over quite yet.
Critical Shortage of Pediatric NPs Looms
With the physician shortage in full swing and not enough PNPs joining the workforce, there is a growing hole in who will care for this nation’s children, with few answers in sight.
The Public Is Clearly Confused about PAs and NPs
As the primary care physician shortage looms, and PAs and NPs are constantly called “the answer,” it seems patients are unaware of what they can even do.