Editing Physician (section)

==Shortage==
{{Main|Physician supply}}
[[File:Medical doctors per 1,000 people, OWID.svg|thumb|Medical doctors per 1,000 people as of 2018<ref>{{cite web |title=Medical doctors per 1,000 people |url=https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physicians-per-1000-people |website=Our World in Data |access-date=5 March 2020 |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104041315/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physicians-per-1000-people |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
Many countries in the developing world have the problem of too few physicians. In 2015, the [[Association of American Medical Colleges]] warned that the US will face a doctor shortage of as many as 90,000 by 2025.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Lenny |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/03/03/u-s-faces-90000-doctor-shortage-by-2025-medical-school-association-warns/ |title=U.S. faces 90,000 doctor shortage by 2025, medical school association warns |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=3 March 2015 |access-date=27 October 2016 |archive-date=29 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629055659/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/03/03/u-s-faces-90000-doctor-shortage-by-2025-medical-school-association-warns/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Long [[Medical resident work hours|medical working hours]], [[shift work]] and [[sleep deprivation]] contribute to [[medical error]]s.<ref name="s156">{{cite journal | last=Weinger | first=Matthew B. | title=Sleep Deprivation and Clinical Performance | journal=JAMA | volume=287 | issue=8 | date=27 February 2002 | issn=0098-7484 | doi=10.1001/jama.287.8.955 | page=955}}</ref>