Medscape May 9, 2024
Physicians are leaving healthcare in droves, “not because they don’t want to practice…but because the system is making it more and more difficult for them to care for their patients,” said Bruce Scott, MD, president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA), at a press conference On May 9 at the National Rural Health Association’s Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He said that shrinking reimbursement rates and excessive administrative tasks are pushing doctors out of the workforce, exacerbating physician shortages in rural locations where 46 million Americans live.
Rural areas have about one tenth of the specialists that urban areas do, and 65% of rural communities do not have enough primary care doctors, according to federal data. A...
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