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Physician Workforce

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New Opportunities For Old Mistakes

The paper by Richard Cooper and colleagues is a chilling methodological throw-back to physician requirement projections from decades past.¹ It is also a blizzard of linguistic and conceptual confusion. Stripped of all camouflage, the story appears to go something like this: Economic growth is the major (exogenous and causal, through mechanisms only sketchily specified) determinant of growth in health care use, health care spending, and physician supply (the relationships among which are left pretty much to the reader’s imagination). If one assumes that the supply of physicians has historically reflected the demand for their services, then one is able to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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