Food availability is expected to trigger hibernation and torpor (ie heterothermy) use. Yet, laboratory experiments under controlled conditions dominate, and this hypothesis remains largely untested under natural conditions. Further experimental manipulations of food availability must therefore be conducted in the wild, accounting for other covarying environmental stressors.

CONTEXT Physicians have been notably silent on the nursing shortage in spite of articles that have suggested that physician behavior is one of the causes of job dissatisfaction among professional nurses. In addition to the role of healer, the physicians of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG) are expected to have the additional responsibilities of being both leaders in health care and s...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates there were 5,848 “primary medical health professional shortage areas” in the country in 2012 and that “it would take an additional 15,928 physicians to adequately meet the primary care medical needs of people in those areas,” according to cardiologist David J. Skorton, MD, president of Cornell University, in a Feb. 20, 2013 blog entry f...

BACKGROUND Women physicians are less likely then men to practice in rural areas. With women representing an increasing proportion of physicians, there is concern that this could exacerbate the rural physician shortage. The Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) of Jefferson Medical College (JMC) is one of a small number of medical school rural programs shown to be successful in addressing the r...

BACKGROUND In Japan, a shortage of physicians, who serve a key role in healthcare provision, has been pointed out as a major medical issue. The healthcare workforce policy planner should consider future dynamic changes in physician numbers. The purpose of this study was to propose a physician supply forecasting methodology by applying system dynamics modeling to estimate future absolute and rel...

The article discusses how non-physicians can help address the increasing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. As demand for primary care services is projected to increase, the supply of primary care physicians is continuing to decline. Authors propose that non-physician professionals such as pharmacists and nurses are essential towards saving time for physicians, providing ...

This summary article discusses the status of the nursing shortage in the United States, with emphasis on successful strategies to address it. Liaisons between the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and the Society for Critical Care Medicine, as well as with the American College of Cardiology, are highlighted, with primary emphasis on the strategy of nurse-physician collaboration.