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America is now facing a shortage of family doctors, driven in part by physicians like Block who’ve served their communities for decades and are now ready to kick back, relax and follow other pursuits.
“We have a very large generation, the baby boomers, who are now retiring at the natural point in their careers,” said Dr. Jennifer Brull, board chair of the Kansas-based American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). “We want to celebrate their retiring. It’s just that there are a lot of them that are family doctors and primary care physicians, and we will miss them.”
But the family medicine crisis also is being driven by younger doctors who are leaving primary care.
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