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Letters |15 March 2005

Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply

William A. Curry, MD; Clyde Barganier, DrPH

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  • From University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL 35294, and Alabama Department of Public Health, Montgomery, AL 36130.
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TO THE EDITOR:
Dr. Cooper (1) notes that projections of physician workforce needs suffer from a lack of information about physician work effort, particularly from women and older physicians. This is a critical observation. While Dr. Cooper's model for projecting future needs is impressive, its usefulness—and that of any model—will be severely limited if the baseline data are faulty. The lack of full-time-equivalent data may be a major reason that so many projections of workforce needs have been contradictory (2-4). As Dr. Cooper noted, recent reports suggest either a shortage of primary care physicians or a surplus (5, 6)...
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Curry WA, Barganier C. Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:473. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-6-200503150-00020

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2005;142(6):473.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-6-200503150-00020

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