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Primary Concern (2013)
TV Movie | 57 min | Documentary

Primary Concern (2013)

TV Movie | 57 min | Documentary

PRIMARY CONCERN, is an hour long documentary by Renée McKay and Joani Livingston. The film takes us to the front lines of the looming national health care crisis by more closely examining the lives of primary care practitioners in rural ...See morePRIMARY CONCERN, is an hour long documentary by Renée McKay and Joani Livingston. The film takes us to the front lines of the looming national health care crisis by more closely examining the lives of primary care practitioners in rural Georgia. Why focus on Georgia? A microcosm of what's happening all across America, Georgia has a dire physician shortage. It is the 9th most populous state and the 5th fastest growing state in the nation. Yet, without changes in the state's medical education system, Georgia will rank last in the United States in physicians per capita by 2020. Without immediate statewide cooperation in expanding medical education and residency programs, the state may never again have an adequate supply of physicians. The prognosis worsens for shortages in primary care for Georgia and throughout the U.S. There are more patients waiting to see fewer and fewer doctors. The Association of American Medical Colleges projects that by 2015, in just two years, the U.S. will be 63,000 doctors short of the number we need. And that number could double by 2025. PRIMARY CONCERN is a story of compassion and perseverance against enormous odds: the dangerous demographic shift of baby boomers and the health care workforce aging simultaneously, the influx of an additional 30 million people seeking access to care who will be covered by the Affordable Care Act, and very few medical students going into primary care and not enough residencies for those who actually do. Primary care doctors in rural and underserved areas in Georgia are already stretched thin as the first responders. How much longer can they hold back the impending storm? PRIMARY CONCERN details the precarious health care precipice in America in all its complexities and profound human drama. Written by Livingston+McKay See less

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Name	Known for
Fred Gaton Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Roland Goertz Self Self See fewer	Das Massaker von Erfurt (2002)
James Hotz Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Edd Jones III Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Ashley Mooney Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Denise Mooney Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Katie Naymick Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
William Rawlings Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Cecil Staton Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
Jean Sumner Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)
James Womack Self Self See fewer	Primary Concern (2013)

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