Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
There's a shortage of healthcare workers in California and it's projected to get even worse.
That's because the state's population will boom just as doctors and their staffs are retiring.
By 2025, California will be short 4,700 primary care doctors according to a UC-San Francisco report. But there's a suggested prescription for this problem. On Wednesday, a coalition of schools, hospitals and other groups unveiled the California Future Health Workforce Commission.
Anna Gorman is a reporter at Kaiser Health News who has been writing about it. She joined Take Two's Libby Denkmann to detail the new group's plans to address the growing problem.
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