During the early and mid-1990s, a consensus emerged among physiciansand health care policymakers that the United States would havea substantial surplus of physicians by the end of the decade.Most people who held this view also believed that the surpluswould be limited to non–primary care physicians and that,by contrast, the supply of physicians planning to practice primarycare medicine would be barely adequate. This view was supportedby the decrease in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the numberof graduating medical students who chose residency trainingin specialties that could lead to careers in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Saver B. G., Poplin C. M., Cykert S., Fleming M., Johnson M. S., South-Paul J., Rustin T. A., Whitcomb M. E., Cohen J. J., Fincher R.-M. E.
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