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3/19/14 KNBA News - A multi-state program works to reduce looming doctor shortage

KNBA | By Joaqlin Estus

Published March 18, 2014 at 9:01 PM AKDT

A shortage of primary care doctors looms just as baby boomers are about to get sick.

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