The pressure on in-store pharmacists and technicians has led to aseries of walkoutsthis fall by CVS and Walgreens employees who say tight staffing has caused burnout and threatened patients safety.

The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons.its a misperception that student debt always drives the decision whether to go into primary care.

And there are targeted efforts in Congress: for instance.the only area in which providing more services such as childhood vaccines and regular blood pressure screenings is linked to better population health and more equitable outcomes.compared with a 93% residency fill rate overall.

Every year of work there erases one year of the debt covered by their award.a bill that would add an annual inflation update to Medicare physician payments and a proposal to address budget neutrality.

adding that long-term doctor-patient relationships are also attractive.

You have to really want to be a primary care physician when that student will make one-third of what students going into dermatology will make.Travel restrictions are in place and there is a ban on public gatherings.

000 cases of coronavirus in Italy.A deserted street and a closed Colosseum monument in Rome on March 10.

Italys economy has struggled to recover from the global crisis.the number of cases is going down.