Health Care Professionals

2Identify and describe three factors that contribute to the nursing shortage in the United States3Identify and describe at least three roles the public health professional has in the health care system.3Identify and describe at least three roles that a health service administrator has in the health care system.4Conclusion4References5 Introduction The medical profession in the USA is increasingly becoming a worry to health care policy makers. Studies have given alarming data about the shortage of quality doctors. The country needs to train in the least at least 35,000 physicians in a year to meet the growing needs. But this is not met even by half. The nation will have a shortage of 85,000 to 200,000 doctors by 2020 unless serious legislation and proactive measures are taken to popularize the health care education industry. Identify and describe three reasons there may be a physician shortage rather than a surplus in the United States The growing shortage of doctors in the US can be attributed mainly to three important reasons which need to be addressed by the senate to make quality health care available. Medical schools are not getting students to train to be physicians. one of the reasons being that it takes