The phrase "a lack of physicians" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there are not enough physicians available to meet the needs of a population or community.
Example: "The rural area is facing a significant challenge due to a lack of physicians, which affects the quality of healthcare services."
Alternatives: "shortage of doctors" or "insufficient number of physicians".
Re "Who's Reading Your X-Ray?" (Nov. 16), which described the outsourcing overseas of medical services: The article's most compelling message is that there is a lack of physicians to provide such services at overworked medical centers in our country.
Dr. Hollenbeck also asserted that because of a lack of physicians in the primary care unit, nurse practitioners, including some who may not have had proper certification, cared for patients with little or no oversight.
It was stated that there appears to be a lack of physicians with training in research and research ethics.
This has been demanding for sites in low- and middle-income countries where there is a lack of physicians to do clinical work, let alone code VAs.
The lack of healthcare in rural areas is not due to a lack of physicians; it is due to a lack of resources to provide clinics, hospitals, and supplies to these areas.
For instance, there were situations in which an interviewee was reluctant to contract with a private provider but was forced to do so because of a lack of physicians, facilities or other resources and because the politicians saw contracting as the best policy option.
The current yawning gap between the availability of genetic tests for common diseases and their usefulness for patients is due in part to a lack of physician training and familiarity with these tests.
On the other hand, a lack of physician-patient communication also generates more recurrent medical litigations [46, 47, 48, 49].
Women in all age groups reported a lack of physician referral and cost as reasons for not previously participating in mammography screening.
An even bigger problem is a lack of physician and patient knowledge about PrEP, and its acceptability within the communities that need it, Wohl said.
A lack of physician support hindering widespread mHealth use is mirrored in a 2012 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
