Concern grows around US health-care workforce shortage: ‘We don’t have enough doctors’

Burnout, stress push nurses to leave workforce CNN —

There is mounting concern among some US lawmakers about the nation’s ongoing shortage of health-care workers, and the leaders of historically Black medical schools are calling for more funding to train a more diverse workforce.

As of Monday, in areas where a health workforce shortage has been identified, the United States needs more than 17,000 additional primary care practitioners, 12,000 dental health practitioners and 8,200 mental health practitioners, according to data from the Health Resources & Services Administration . Those numbers are based on data that HRSA receives from state offices and […]

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