General Medicine Failing to Attract

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Fewer medical students are choosing traditional physician careers, and some in the medical profession predict that patients will be scrambling in the next 25 years for regular doctors.

The trend limits the number of primary care physicians - such as family doctors, pediatricians and geriatricians - who will be available to patients in the next few decades.

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General Medicine Failing to Attract

About 27 percent of internal medicine residents picked a general medicine career in 2003, compared with 54 percent in 1998, according to a recent stu...

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