Doctors & Nurses
Legislation (SB 764) by Sen. Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) was amended to require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to provide a report to the Legislature and Department of Health Care Services that makes a five-year projection on the number of full-time, practicing primary care physicians and surgeons in California (Bill Text, 6/19). The Assembly Appropriations Committee is considering the measure (Bill Status, 6/19).
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