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Kurt Mosley |
Is there a Physical Therapist in the House?
You’ve got a date with a physical therapist. Maybe not tomorrow, or next week, or next year. But sooner or later you will need a PT to get your body back into proper working order, and so will the rest of us. It’s a simple matter of demographics. Starting in 2011, the first of some 80 million Baby Boomers will begin turning 65. These purpose-driven seniors will “not go gentle into that good night,” as Dylan…
Are Doctors Endangered?
There are certain jobs that Americans simply won’t do. For example, Americans generally are not inclined to pick fruit for the wages that farmers are willing or able to pay. Busing tables, packing meat, and cleaning dishes also are low on the list of jobs that Americans are eager to take. Unlikely as it may seem, there is another job that may have to be added to this list: family physician. Fewer and fewer American…
In Health Care Recruiting, Imaging is Everything
Though I am relatively healthy, over the course of my life I have visited many physicians for one ailment or another, and never has one of them said, “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” Nevertheless, there is a reason why that phrase serves as a punch line to a lot of old doctor jokes. For many years, the treatment options that physicians had to offer their patients were limited. Telling patients to take…
Health Care Reform: There’s a Missing Piece to the Puzzle
As the old joke goes, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything.” The same might be said about health care reform, which has been batted about by political leaders and policy pundits for years without any observable result. Thanks to this year’s presidential elections, what to do about healthcare is a hotter topic than ever. Everyone, it seems, including the leading Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, wants to change our health care system so…
Who Drives the Bus in Healthcare?
Total annual healthcare spending in the United States topped the $2 trillion mark in 2005, according to Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and is projected to exceed $3 trillion in 2011. That’s more than the gross domestic product of every country in the world except the U.S., Germany, Japan, China and Great Britain. In an industry this huge there naturally are a lot of powerful players, including the federal government, insurance companies, medical equipment…
Have Stethoscope, Will Travel
Those of you who have reached a certain stage of maturity (and – why not say it? – wisdom and distinguished looks) no doubt remember the old television show, “Marcus Welby, M.D.” You may even remember that Dr. Welby had a partner, the young, impetuous, motorcycle driving Dr. Kiley. Dr. Kiley was always dashing here and there, getting involved in crises that the older and wiser Dr. Welby eventually would resolve. While classic family physicians like…
"Travel Nursing" Moves Mainstream
Take out a map of the United States. Close your eyes and move your index finger over the map in a circular motion, then drop your finger at random. Where did it land? Chicago, Illinois? Waco, Texas? Buffalo, New York? If you were a nurse seeking a job, it really wouldn’t matter. You could literally pick a community at random and chances are you would be able to find work there. There is a reason the…
Who Needs Doctors and Nurses?
How many hospitals are recruiting physicians and nurses today? Has recruiting physicians and nurses become more difficult for hospitals in recent years, or less difficult? What do hospital administrators think about the number of physicians and nurses being trained in United States? If healthcare policy analysts and academics really want to know about the current state of physician and nurse supply, these seem like good questions to ask. After all, who has a better handle…
The Healthcare Professional Shortage
Academics and healthcare analysts have their methods for determining the supply of available talent in a given field, and professional recruiters, well, we have ours. While academics look at various theoretical supply models and use computer-aided formulas to project the current and future supply of workers, recruiters, in contrast, operate at the “street” level. We know from experience when candidates are becoming harder to find and when supply in particular fields is getting ominously low. In the…