The Coming Shortage of Surgeons
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The Coming Shortage of Surgeons

Why They Are Disappearing and What That Means for Our Health

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Coming Shortage of Surgeons

Why They Are Disappearing and What That Means for Our Health

About this book

A critical, quantitative look at the future supply and demand of surgical specialists that may foretell rationing of surgical services. The Coming Shortage of Surgeons: Why They Are Disappearing and What That Means for Our Health is the only quantitative analysis of the workforce in orthopedic and thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, neurosurgery, and urology. It analyzes the demand and supply for these surgeons and gives the causes and remedies for these shortages. The Coming Shortage of Surgeons quantifies the demand for the surgical workforce, then examines the constraints to supply, which include soaring tuition and medical students' debts, the demand for a controllable or scheduled lifestyle, malpractice premium expenses, early retirement, and perhaps the most difficult hurdle to overcome: the provision in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 that caps all medical and surgical residencies at 1996 levels.

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Yes, you can access The Coming Shortage of Surgeons by Thomas E. Williams Jr., M.D., Ph.D.,E. Christopher Ellison M.D.,Bhagwan Satiani M.D., M.B.A. in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Public Health, Administration & Care. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313380709
eBook ISBN
9780313380716
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Series Foreword
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Acronyms
  12. 1. The Problem
  13. 2. Demand for a Surgical/Medical Workforce
  14. 3. Surgical Supply: Residents—The Future Surgeons
  15. 4. Constraints to Supply: Pertinent Issues
  16. 5. Calculating Physician Supply: The Model—Assumptions, Relevant Parameters, and the Algorithm
  17. 6. Orthopedic Surgery
  18. 7. Cardiothoracic Surgery
  19. 8. Otolaryngology
  20. 9. Obstetrics and Gynecology
  21. 10. General Surgery
  22. 11. Neurosurgery
  23. 12. Urology
  24. 13. The Last Hurdle: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and Graduate Medical Education Funding
  25. 14. Is There a Solution? Numerical Projections, and Improving Physicians’ Productivity
  26. 15. Challenges and Consequences
  27. Epilogue
  28. Appendix
  29. Notes
  30. Index
  31. About the Authors
  32. About the Series Editor