Despite much media attention being given to the physician shortage in Canada in recent years, this shortage pales in comparison to that seen in many middle- and low-income countries. A major cause of the shortage in these countries is the migration of health care workers from developing to developed nations, a phenomenon known as the "brain drain". The loss of these workers is having devastatin...

The term anxiety state attained notoriety in the recent war, as shell shock did in days gone by. Each came to be used casually as a label for practically every form of mental disability and for other conditions as well. This had serious results in the I9I4-I8 war, as many patients, being wrongly diagnosed, were wrongly treated. The aftermath was seen in the heavy burden of pensions with its ine...

Healthcare deficiencies in the United States have long been perpetuated by a shortage of primary care providers. A core purpose of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is to provide health insurance for America's approximately fifty million uninsured. Implementation of universal health insurance, however, does not mean sufficient healthcare access for all, since the supply of ...

As the 2014 expansion of coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) looms larger, one question with no ready answer is how health care providers, policymakers, and payers will cope with an expected surge in patient demand for services. A shortage of primary care physicians to treat newly insured persons is the most immediate health workforce issue, but when added to the nation’s populat...

J Adv Pract Oncol 2012;3:47–48 A s a veteran oncology nurse practitioner, the findings presented by Towle et al. (2011) in their article, “Results of the ASCO Study of Collaborative Practice Arrangements,” recently published in the Journal of Oncology Practice, were not astonishing to me. The purpose of their study was to address the workforce shortage of oncologists by exploring collaborative ...

Access to vital health care services is currently unavailable to many of Kentucky’s estimated 671 434 uninsured in 20091 and inadequate for many more currently covered by health insurance. A sufficient number of physicians of all specialties, especially primary care, are necessary to ensure that appropriate care is available. On the basis of a 2007 study by the Kentucky Institute of Medicine,2 ...