Did you think that the Marcus Vick saga was over when he went undrafted? This was one of The Turkey’s no-brainer draft predictions that actually came to pass. But what of Marcus now? Whither be the former Hokie problem child ex-quarterback and brother of Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick?
It turns out that he’s trying out at wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins, and they say he’s coming along well. I suppose they need someone to provide notariety now that Ricky “Ganja” Williams will be sitting out for a year’s suspension for failing yet another NFL drug test and paying penance playing for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL. Read about Vick’s Dolphin tryout here.
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her a a couple of web pages that rather quickly explain why finding availaible primary care doctors is very hard.
http://www.aafp.org/match/graph05.html
the average number of med students choosing primary care family practice was about 2,500 year pre 1996…now the number is just barely above 1,100
a quick estimate from this data is that cumulatively there are @ 7,000 less doctors practicing family practice over the past 10 years. this amounts to some states experiencing a drop of 300-500 less primary care physicians in 2006 compared to 1996.
The numbers of Internal medicine docotors choosing primary care is only about 200/year.
and to make availabiliy issues worse…. about 50% of physcians since 1996 are women and thus a majority of these young doc’s work part-time for several years while trying to raise families as well.
and since 9/11 the number of froeign doctors coming to the US has dropped significantly.
all this while are population is growing more numerous and getting older.
a recent article highlight the impending collapse of primary care.
http://www.acponline.org/hpp/statehc06_1.pdf
Why the drop in primary care? For most docs it boils down to too much work,hassle and stress.