The Receding Specialty of Infectious Diseases and Implications for U.S. Healthcare
Gonzalo Bearman, Rebecca Mullin, Priya Nori · 2025
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Gonzalo Bearman, Rebecca Mullin, and Priya Nori sound an alarm about America's shrinking corps of infectious disease doctors, in this 2025 commentary. These specialists staff the front lines of prevention, outbreak response, and the care of the hardest infections across every hospital. Their numbers are receding even as resistance and pandemic risk grow.
The authors spell out what a thinner workforce buys: slower access to expert care, worse outcomes, faster antibiotic resistance, higher costs, weaker pandemic readiness, and a sicker nation overall. Their remedies are structural rather than sentimental. Pay models should reward cognitive specialties fairly. Loan forgiveness should target fields where demand outruns supply. Immigration policy should help staff underserved areas with trained physicians. And public health, the specialty's home ground, needs reinvestment. The piece is a policy brief dressed as a warning: the expertise is perishable, and losing it is a choice.
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| CREATOR | Gonzalo Bearman, Rebecca Mullin, Priya Nori |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |