Can group medical appointments help with physician shortage?

More and more physicians have begun holding group appointments for up to a dozen patients with similar medical concerns all at once, which some see as a way to help easy looming physician shortages, according to the Washington Post.

The country will require nearly 52,000 additional primary care physicians by 2025, and more than 8,000 of them will be needed for the more than 27 million people newly insured under the Affordable Care Act, according a study published in December 2012. Advocates of this new approach suggest that physicians will be able to treat more patients, spend more time with patients, increase availability, and improve health outcomes. It will also, in theory, be able to address a potential shortage for physicians in the coming years.

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