The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours) allocated to preventive care. hours) allocated to preventive care.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. We don’t have a geriatrician.

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77