Sentences with phrase «doctor shortages in»

He was a powerful voice on the social determinants of health, on Indigenous health and on the impact of doctor shortages in Australia and in developing countries.

But the Republican lawmaker said there's a doctor shortage in Canada because they are paid less and that thousands of patients flock south for immediate care.

There's no shortage of media coverage about a doctor shortage in Canada and the resulting impact on Canada's healthcare system.

He also recognized that nurse - midwives could alleviate the doctor shortage in family planning clinics.

Because a higher proportion of the Indigenous population live in rural and remote areas, the doctor shortage in the bush is having a greater impact on Indigenous peoples when compared to the non-Indigenous population, for example.

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At hospitals across the country, in fact, there is an entrenched doctor shortage, which has grown only more acute as millions of Americans have gained health coverage in recent years.

Given growing doctor shortages and increasing pressure for cost control, more medical care will be pushed downstream to nurse practitioners, mini-practices inside retailers» locations, and in mobile - van and in - home practices and via online, where diagnosis and issuance of prescriptions is an evolving business very near the tipping point of a boom.

To help circumvent the shortage, the FDA enacted new provisions in 2012 that require drug makers to give the agency earlier notice about potential shortages in order to alert patients and doctors so they can seek alternative treatments.

There is a dramatic shortage of doctor's offices in these areas.

While Buggs is, now, long - retired from the world of bat doctoring — the WSJ story acted as a sort of career retrospective after Russell decided to «go legit» by becoming head of the appropriately named sporting goods company Evil Sports — there's no shortage of bat doctors currently in business.

A woman that has multiple pregnancy needs a stricter doctor's supervision because, in her case, a late toxicosis, anemia and shortage of vitamins may occur.

She is to highlight the fact that Theresa May's target, and the hostile environment measures put in place that have so far failed to achieve it, are «leading to the scandalous situation where we are turning away doctors, even though there is a severe shortage of trained personnel in the NHS».

He also says that we have a shortage of doctors, yet in 2003, we had 2.2 doctors per thousand people, compared to 2.34 in the US - Not much difference I say.

The new Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University aims to keep physicians in New Jersey, which is facing an estimated shortage of 3,000 doctors by 2020.

This, he said, was necessitated by the shortage of Veterinary Doctors in the country.

Western New York's supply of primary care physicians plummeted by nearly a quarter between 2010 and 2013, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer, providing the starkest evidence yet of a family doctor shortage plaguing upstate New York and likely to get worse in the future.

«Transplant tourism from the United States is growing in direct correlation to the organ shortage,» says Mt. Sinai liver doctor Thomas Schiano, who published H. Q.'s case in Liver Transplantation in 2010.

February 27, 2013 Study: Doctor shortage to hit Chicago's poorer neighborhoods harder Some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods are expected to see the greatest demand for additional primary care doctors in 2014, as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of newly insured patients seeking medical services, a new study has found.

Even without this shortage, you may have noticed that doctors lack the time and training to help us make lasting changes in areas such as diet, physical activity, sleep, and stress management, which are crucial for addressing chronic disease.

There are 36 states that offer loan repayment programs for doctors that range from $ 80,000 (Wyoming) to $ 250,000 (Vermont), to $ 525,000 (Massachusetts) to $ 1 million (California and Illinois) for serving in Health Professional Shortage Areas.

The Health Resources and Services Administration has loan forgiveness programs for doctors and nurses who serve in designated areas of the country that have shortages of primary medical, dental and mental health providers.

Doctors, lawyers, college professors, you name it, there is no shortage of people from these highly - skilled fields and others that have lost thousands of dollars in the markets.

The Regents Physician Loan Forgiveness Award Program offers grants of up to $ 10,000 per year for doctors who practice for two years in physician shortage areas.

The Nebraska Loan Repayment Program offers up to $ 60,000 annually in loan repayment assistance to doctors who practice within a state - designated shortage area.

This is because of the pure shortage of healthcare agencies, doctors, and primary care health professionals in the region.

Through the program, the council provides veterinary education loan repayments from the fund to eligible veterinarians who have graduated from an accredited doctor of veterinary medicine school; currently live in Colorado or, at some point, have lived in Colorado for at least three years; and agree to practice veterinary medicine for up to four years in a rural area of the state that is experiencing a shortage of veterinarians that the council designates for participation in the program.

But I do not think that society should be structured in such a way as to produce a painful shortage of doctors, nurses and sheet metal workers and a harmful surfeit of lawyers.

«While the reforms have led to public sector bodies adding about 90,000 people to their payrolls in the three months to 30 June 2017, they have also resulted in labour and skill shortages, as a number of IT contractors, locum doctors and nurses now choose to work less or work only for the private sector.

This may be especially important to consider if you live in an area where there is a doctor shortage.

If you are in an area where there is a doctor shortage, this could potentially limit your access to health care.

If you commit to working in a Health Professional Shortage Area, you could help doctors and graduate - level nurses see more patients and shorten wait times.

The BMP Scheme provides a Commonwealth - supported place in an Australian medical school, in exchange for a commitment to work for a period of twelve months in an area recognised as having a shortage of doctors.

Before it closed, Scott County's Planned Parenthood clinic provided HIV testing and referrals to care in an area with a shortage of doctors and scant medical resources.