It's a great time for cardiologists seeking
new opportunities. W. Bruce Fye writes in
the February 4, 2003 issue of Health Affairs:
The United States faces a serious shortage
of cardiologists as our population ages and
the burden of heart disease grows. The problem
is compounded by a cutback in the number
of cardiology training positions a decade
ago. Dramatic scientific, technological,
and procedural advances fueled the growth
of cardiology during the second half of the
twentieth century. Patients benefited from
access to specialists who transformed new
knowledge into longer and better lives. Demand
for cardiologists is strong and growing.
The CDC's Summary Statistics for U.S. Adults, 2001 backs this up with statistics on the pervasiveness
of heart related diagnoses:
- Overall, 12% of adults 18 years of age and
over had ever been told by a doctor
or other
health professional that they had
heart disease,
6% had ever been told they had coronary
heart
disease, 21% had been told on two
or more
visits that they had hypertension,
and 2%
had ever been told they had experienced
a
stroke.
- Among adults 18 years of age and over, men
were more likely to have ever been
told they
had coronary heart disease than were
women.
Women were more likely to have ever
been
told on two or more visits that they
had
hypertension than were men.
Depending on your preferences, there
is growing
demand among areas seeing a rise in
the elderly
population (traditionally, states such
as
Florida, Arizona, and California) as
well
as in communities of white collar,
middle
aged workers who are more attuned to
heart
concerns and have the means to investigate
symptoms.
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