650. The Doctor Won’t See You Now
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What It Covers
America faces a physician shortage of 187,000 doctors by 2037 due to aging population, limited medical school slots, and burnout driving doctors away.
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Walensky describes calling hospitals as CDC director during COVID, discovering they could not connect vaccination records with hospitalization data due to fragmented systems.
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- Flexner ReportBy guest
by Abraham Flexner
“How did the 1910 Flexner Report reshape medical education permanently? Abraham Flexner's 1910 evaluation closed two-thirds of medical schools, reducing infant mortality by eight percent but limiting physician supply permanently.”
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