Move to Lucrative Specialties 'Severely Crimping' Primary Care

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog
May 27, 2008

So it's gotten to the point where even the SEC says getting health coverage to more people is a big deal.  But what good is coverage if you can't get in to see the doctor?

This morning another voice joins the chorus warning of a coming shortage of primary care doctors.  This time, it's Joseph B. Martin, former dean of Harvard Med School.

 Writing in The Boston Globe, he makes the case that a "march into more lucrative medical specialties is severely crimping the ranks of needed primary care doctors at the very moment the demand for primary care is on the rise."

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