Doctors call for plan to curb physician shortage

Plan to address physician shortage requires proper support.

Call to curb overuse of sedatives.

HEALTHCARE professionals and patients must be made more aware of the side effects of sedative and anti-psychotic drugs, the director of nursing at Europe's largest nursing home has warned.

Doctors from abroad: a cure for the physician shortage in America.

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...

WHO to develop plan to curb artemisinin resistance.

(WHO) will launch a plan in January to contain resistance to a drug that forms the backbone of malaria treatment programs, says the director of the organization’s malaria section. The Global Plan for Artemisinin Resistance Containment will give “global marching orders” and drive research into molecular marker screening tools that could detect resistance to the drug artemisinin earlier, said Dr....

A physician prescription for the nursing shortage.

In 2003, the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG), a 780-member, multispecialty physician group that provides ambulatory and hospital care principally in metropolitan Denver and Boulder, embarked upon a multifaceted program to leverage physician leadership to address the nursing shortage. Designated as the "Preferred Clinical Partner Program" (the PCP Program), CPMG sought to participate in...