{"id":876,"date":"2007-08-28T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2007-08-28T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:47:00","slug":"delawareonline-%c2%a6-the-news-journal-wilmington-del-%c2%a6-patient-increase-limited-medical-school-slots-make-seeing-doctor-tougher-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"delawareonline \u00a6 The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. \u00a6 Patient increase, limited medical school slots make seeing doctor tougher to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070821\/HEALTH\/708210317\/-1\/NEWS01\">delawareonline \u00a6 The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. \u00a6 Patient increase, limited medical school slots make seeing doctor tougher to do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some doctors say the problem lies not with a doctor shortage, but with an uneven distribution of MDs. New doctors gravitate toward more lucrative specialties, such as sports medicine. Specialties that require surgery, such as ophthalmology, also attract doctors because Medicare and insurers reimburse surgical procedures at a far higher rate than evaluations. Cooper said young doctors are turning to these profitable specialties at the expense of Medicare patients, who largely suffer from diabetes and arthritis and are in need of endocrinologists and rheumatologists. Medical school students also may be dissuaded from primary care. Dr. David Krasner, who works at Family Practice Associates in Wilmington, said the existing reimbursement system pays too little for cognitive evaluations by primary care physicians. &#8216;For physicians to go into primary care in this day and age, it&#8217;s akin to committing financial suicide,&#8217; he said. &#8216;The shortage in my opinion won&#8217;t get better until Medicare changes the way it reimburses.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Please click on some of the tags below: physician income, in particular to learn more about this topic&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>delawareonline \u00a6 The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. \u00a6 Patient increase, limited medical school slots make seeing doctor tougher to do: &#8220;Some doctors say the problem lies not with a doctor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;delawareonline \u00a6 The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. \u00a6 Patient increase, limited medical school slots make seeing doctor tougher to do&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,47,33,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-physician-income","category-rationing-health-care","category-waiting-times"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}