Too few physicians, or too many?

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-12

  Latham, Stephen R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MANPOWER; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77249087720     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0213     Document Type: Article

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