Where Have the Primary Care Doctors Gone?
Despite a record number of new doctors, primary care providers remain difficult to find Fact checked by Catherine Gianaro U.S. medical school enrollment hit an all-time high in 2025, topping 100,000 students for the first time, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Yet difficulty securing appointments with primary care providers persists. The percentage […]
An Upside of Shorter Appointments?
People are increasingly noticing shorter primary care appointment times. And David Liss, PhD, a researcher at Northwestern University, has been studying the trend. Liss and colleagues compared outcomes among primary care physicians who scheduled 15- and 30-minute appointments with those who scheduled 20- and 40-minute appointments. The researchers found no significant differences in patients’ ability […]
The Diet-Disease Link
Diet-related diseases are the No. 1 cause of death in the US – yet many doctors receive little to no nutrition education in med school By Nathaniel Johnson, University of North Dakota and Madeline Comeau, University of North Dakota Above photo: Nearly 60% of respondents to one medical school survey said they received no nutritional […]
Rapid Changes to Healthcare Spurred By COVID Might Be Here to Stay
The U.S. healthcare system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it was nearly another half-century before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the COVID-19 pandemic has done what no president, social movement or venture capitalist could […]