Shortage of doctors affects rural U.S.
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A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care.
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The federal government predicted Monday that the supply of doctors who specialize in treating critically ill patients probably won't keep up with the demand of the country's aging population.
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A major survey of Canadian doctors revealed what most Canadians already know first-hand - there aren&#39;t enough family doctors for everyone.
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The United States is heading toward a major shortage of cancer doctors by 2020 as the population ages and the medical profession struggles to replace retiring oncologists, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Some poor children in Ohio who qualify for flu shots may have to wait for them because of questions over doctors being reimbursed through a Medicaid program.
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LISBON, Aug 24  (IPS) - There are not enough doctors in Portugalâs public  health system, because too many have left to enter the private  sector. This has forced socialist Prime Minister JosÃ© SÃ³cratesâ  administration to seek rapid and drastic solutions, one of which  is to attract doctors from the developing world.
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WASHINGTON  - Policymakers and the medical  profession need to recognize and take immediate steps to avert  a looming shortage of physicians, analysts told a forum on  Capitol Hill Tuesday.
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Those strangers waiting at the doctorâs office may share a pain that others canât understand.
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Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially
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Veterinarians who care for the animals that provide the United States with food are in increasingly short supply.
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction - the state is expanding its role
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Doctors eager to pare back their hours and find more time for themselves and their families are helping fuel an &quot;alarming&quot; trend toward even greater doctor shortages, concludes a major new study.
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Big phone and cable companies are reluctant to expand in rural areas, leaving millions without high-speed access.
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TORONTO (CP) - The association representing Canada's doctors is calling on Ottawa to provide a whopping &#36;1 billion to address the shortage of physicians and develop a strategy to ensure the country has enough health providers to care for patients in the future.
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Alaska could use 375 more doctors and a group studying the shortage recommends subsidizing students to close the physician gap.
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Residents of U.S. rural areas are up to 20 percent less likely to get a heart, kidney or liver transplant than urban dwellers, researchers reported on Tuesday.