How Many Doctors Do We Need?

A Policy Agenda for the United States in the 1990s Based on the Tenth Private Sector Conference, 1985

• Author(s): Duncan Yaggy, Patricia Hodgson,
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Pages: 163
• ISBN_10: 0822305771
  ISBN_13: 9780822305774
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Labor / General , Law / Medical Law & Legislation , Medical / Health Care Delivery , Medical / Health Policy , Medical / Physicians , Political Science / Public Policy / Health Care ,

Description:... This volume addresses the public and private policies affecting physician supply in the United States, focusing on the physician surplus, market forces, and geographic distribution of physicians, life-style choices and evolving practice patterns, market influences of foreign medical graduates, the university's role in establishing priorities for medical education, and other pertinent topics.