650. The Doctor Won’t See You Now
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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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