Shortage of Newly-Trained Doctors Puts Physician Recruits in the Driver’s Seat

May 29, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Younger Gen X and Gen Y pathologists have different workplace expectations Aging Baby Boomers are about to retire and double the nation’s population of senior citizens. Meanwhile, a decline in the pool of practicing physicians-the majority of which are part of the Boomer generation-has put the United States on a collision course for the gravest shortage of physicians in our nation’s history. For medical laboratories, these demographic trends will change the way labs hire,...
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