40,000.
This is the number we keep hearing — the deficit of primary care doctors that’s only going to get worse, that’s not going to be there to take care of our expanding and rapidly aging population, all the chronic disease management, all the acute care, or even all the massive numbers of people we are going to need just to click boxes to keep up with all of the quality measures we have now and will have in the future.
How can we inspire young medical students to think about entering the field of primary care?
