Concerns of both a current and future shortage of medical doctors due to the supply and demand for physicians in the United States have come from multiple entities including professional bodies such as the American Medical Association (AMA).[1] The subject has been analyzed as well by the American news media in publications such as Forbes,[2] The Nation,[3] and Newsweek.[4] In the 2010s, a study released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) titled The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections From 2019 to 2034 specifically projected a shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 individuals within the following two decades, approximately.[1]
Healthcare in America itself may deteriorate for certain communities inside particular U.S. states due to such trends, particularly in terms of the lack of access to specialty services in rural locations.[1] For instance, a September 2022 report from the University of Hawaiʻi System found that the collection of islands faces "a severe physician shortage".[5] A piece published that same month by Spectrum News 1 - Ohio described the Midwestern state as featuring a shortage "that's expected to hit rural areas the hardest."[6] Mechanisms of structural inequality in the U.S. affect its national health due to past and current discrimination, particularly efforts to set people apart based on Americans' racial identities.[7]
In the broader context of evaluating peoples' health across the whole planet, worries over a doctor shortage have occurred in multiple countries besides the U.S. For instance, the World Health Organization (WHO) found in 2006 that "an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers [exists] worldwide".[8]
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