Why Florida physician background checks are driving doctors away

I decided to be a physician because my mother died from tuberculosis, after quite a struggle, including with not only tuberculosis, but also with the United States Public Health System, when I was 15 years old. I got an academic scholarship to college and then put myself through medical school.

I did an internal medicine residency at Washington University and Barnes Hospital and was an emergency room physician for about seven …

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Why Florida physician background checks are driving doctors away