article_snippet: The U.S. could face a shortage of 90,000 doctors by 2025 as it struggles to cope with an older, sicker population and increased demand from Obamacare, a new report has warned.
article_snippet: The dire need for doctors, particularly surgeons treating diseases common among elderly people, such as cancer, was revealed by the Association of American Medical Colleges on Tuesday. '
article_snippet: The doctor shortage is real –
article_snippet: The doctor shortage's significant – and The doctor shortage's particularly serious for the kind of medical care that our aging population is going to need,' said Darrell G. Kirch, CEO and president of AAMC, which represents medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country.
article_snippet: In Darrell G. Kirch, CEO and president of AAMC, which represents medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country 2015 report, the Association of American Medical Colleges found that even though the supply of doctors will increase between now and 2015, the demand for physician services will fast out-grow this supply.
article_snippet: A graph shows the predicted demand for doctors compared to the predicted supply between 2013 and 2015.
article_snippet: The greatest shortage will be for surgeons, particularly those treating diseases among the elderly .
article_snippet: The  number of physicians is expected to grow by nine per cent over the next ten years, but the demand for healthcare services could grown by up to 17 percent.
article_snippet: the demand for healthcare services predicted there could be a shortfall of between 46,100 and 90,400 doctors in 10 years' time and, of a shortfall of between 46,100 and 90,400 doctors, there could be a shortage of as many as 63,700 non-primary care physicians.
article_snippet: But the association will do so only minimally - increasing the need for doctors by two per cent. '
article_snippet: The physician shortage will grow over the next 10 years under every likely scenario.
article_snippet: Because training a doctor takes between five and 10 years, we must act now, in 2015, if we are going to avoid serious physician shortages in 2025.'
article_snippet: the association did note that the shortfalls aren't as bad as predictions in the past; in a 2010 study, the shortfalls said there would be a shortage of 130,600 physicians.
highlights_snippet: The Association of American Medical Colleges has warned that there could be a shortfall of between 46,100 and 90,400 doctors by 2025 .
  
highlights_snippet: In particular, there will be a need for surgeons treating diseases common among elderly people, such as cancer .
  