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  • Opinion: NM needs doctors, healthcare workers

    Elizabeth Heller Allen, Guest columnist|Updated Dec 10, 2024

    For years, New Mexico has been seriously short of virtually all doctors: primary care, pediatricians, dentists, eye doctors, and other specialists … and all the people who help them take care of patients. It can take months to see a specialist and weeks to see a primary care physician, if you can find one. We are short almost 13,000 healthcare workers to serve our 2.1 million residents. That includes every kind of healthcare worker like EMTs, pharmacists and physical therapists as well as physicians and nurses. This s...