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Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

The following op-ed originally appeared on STAT News. AOA President Ira P. Monka joins other health care leaders in an address to Congress. The pressures of the last three and a half years have affected every corner of the health care landscape, but nowhere is the effect more evident than the country’s physician workforce. Burnout, … Read More

AOA Staff

09.27.23

Public Policy

Ira P. Monka, DO, Calls on Physicians to Urge Lawmakers to Protect Patient Access to Care

This week, AOA President Ira P. Monka, DO, launched a grassroots campaign encouraging his colleagues to help facilitate change on Capitol Hill by writing their federal lawmakers to ask them to reauthorize the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program (THCGME) and prevent a government shutdown. Dr. Monka’s message states that a looming government shutdown … Read More

AOA Staff

09.26.23

Category: Public Policy

Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

Ira P. Monka, DO, Calls on Physicians to Urge Lawmakers to Protect Patient Access to Care