Current：Home > NewsWhat's the cure for America's doctor shortage? -OceanicInvest
What's the cure for America's doctor shortage?
View
Date：2025-04-14 09:08:07
There is a doctor shortage in this country. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that if workforce trends and healthcare demand continue as expected, the U.S. could be short as many as 124,000 physicians by the year 2034.
Today, we look at the causes—and potential cures—for the nation's dearth of doctors.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (6812)
Related
- Rylee Arnold Shares a Long
- Toilet paper and flat tires — the strange ways that Californians ignite wildfires
- Kathie Lee Gifford hospitalized with fractured pelvis after fall: 'Unbelievably painful'
- Map shows 13 states with listeria cases linked to Boar's Head recall
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- Evy Leibfarth 'very proud' after winning Olympic bronze in canoe slalom
- Georgia superintendent says Black studies course breaks law against divisive racial teachings
- What Kamala Harris has said (and done) about student loans during her career
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- By the dozen, accusers tell of rampant sexual abuse at Pennsylvania juvenile detention facilities
Ranking
- Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says
- Alabama, civic groups spar over law restricting assistance with absentee ballot applications
- How (and why) Nikola Jokic barely missed triple-double history at 2024 Paris Olympics
- Governor appoints new adjutant general of the Mississippi National Guard
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Medal predictions for track and field events at the 2024 Paris Olympics
- Former Denver police recruit sues over 'Fight Day' training that cost him his legs
- Member of ‘Tennessee Three’ hopes to survive state Democratic primary for Senate seat
Recommendation
Average rate on 30
Why Mandy Moore Fans Think She’s Hinting at a Princess Diaries 3 Cameo
While Steph Curry looks for his shot, US glides past South Sudan in Olympics
A night in Paris shows how far US table tennis has come – and how far it has to go
Google unveils a quantum chip. Could it help unlock the universe's deepest secrets?
Nasdaq, S&P 500 ride chip-stock wave before Fed verdict; Microsoft slips
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's Son Miles Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes
US road safety agency will look into fatal crash near Seattle involving Tesla using automated system