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There are so few Indigenous physicians in the United States — just 0.3% of doctors — that their numbers barely show up in charts and graphs depicting the diversity of the medical workforce. But as of Thursday, there will be at least nine more. Thursday is graduation day for the first class of the nation’s only tribally affiliated medical school, the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation.
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Health spending has grown ‘by less than planned’ since the last general election, with cash top-ups ‘insufficient’ to offset inflation, a leading think tank has found. Plans set out in the 2019 election campaign indicated the DHSC budget would increase by 3.3% a year above inflation, however spending has risen by only 2.7% a year […] The post Health spending has grown less than planned, finds IFS report appeared first on The Pharmacist.
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