Economics Archives - Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network https://blogs.bcm.edu/tag/economics/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:04:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://blogs.bcm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2d904ab48738e474191a678dceb72b07.png Economics Archives - Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network https://blogs.bcm.edu/tag/economics/ 32 32 122339384 Addressing the problem of physician shortages https://blogs.bcm.edu/2017/07/14/addressing-problem-physician-shortages/ https://blogs.bcm.edu/2017/07/14/addressing-problem-physician-shortages/#respond Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:45:08 +0000 https://blogs.bcm.edu/?p=16043 In the past month, my immediate family has had three situations requiring urgent but not emergent medical care. In all three situations, the first-available appointment

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