Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH, was interviewed by host Dr. Connie Corley on our Experience Talks radio show on 1/3. Connie has shared an excellent New York Times article published this week that features Dr. Eckstrom: As Population Ages, Where Are the Geriatricians?
From the article:
Geriatrics is one of the few medical specialties in the United States that is contracting even as the need increases, ranking at the bottom of the list of specialties that internal medicine residents choose to pursue. . . . “Part of the reason aging has such a negative connotation is this sense that you can’t cure older people’s problems,” said Dr. Kenneth Brummel-Smith, a professor of geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, Fla., a state with a particularly severe geriatrician shortage. “And yet a good geriatrician can bring someone back to functional status.”
You can listen to the Experience Talks radio show on our 2016 Archive page on our website to learn more about both Dr. Eckstrom and Marcy Cottrell Houle, her co-author of the book, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Peril of Modern Healthcare.
