The coming shortage of surgeons
Subtitle: why they are disappearing and what that means for our health
By: Thomas E. Williams, Jr., Bhagwan Satiani, and E. Christopher Ellison ; foreword by Thomas R. Russell.
Contributors: Satiani, Bhagwan.; Ellison, E. Christopher.
Series: The Praeger series on contemporary health and living; Praeger series on contemporary health and living
Publisher: Praeger/ABC-CLIO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780313380709
Subjects: Surgeons -- Supply and demand -- United States; General Surgery -- manpower; Education, Medical, Graduate -- trends; Specialties, Surgical -- trends
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem; title: Demand for a surgical/medical workforce; title: Surgical supply : residents, the future surgeons; title: Constraints to supply : pertinent issues; title: Calculating physician supply : the model : assumptions, relevant parameters, and the algorithm; title: Orthopedic surgery; title: Cardiothoracic surgery; title: Otolaryngology; title: Obstetrics and gynecology; title: General surgery; title: Neurosurgery; title: Urology; title: The last hurdle : the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and graduate medical education funding; title: Is there a solution? : numerical projections, and improving physicians' productivity; title: Challenges and consequences.