CHICAGO - Only two percent of fresh medical graduates have planned to work in primary care internal medicine, creating a shortage of the first-stop doctors who considered being the backbone of the American medical system, according to a new survey.

Results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The figure was nine percent in a similar survey in 1990.

Paperwork, demands of the chronic patients and abundance of work are the factors changing young doctors mind. Primary care doctors he met as a student had to “speed to see enough patients to make a reasonable living,” Shipman said.

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The risk of premature death from cancer is less than half in elderly runners than non-runners.

According to the Stanford University Medical Centre team’s report, elderly joggers enjoyed a healthier life with fewer disabilities.

The findings have been published in Archives of Internal Medicine and they stress on the importance of regular exercise for older people.

Only the fittest survives.

In the study, the record of 500 older runners was tracked for more than twenty years and then it was compared to a similar group of non-runners. It’s worth mentioning that all participants of the study were in their 50s at the start of the study.

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