{"id":3533,"date":"2016-07-13T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:52:50","slug":"few-young-doctors-are-training-to-care-for-u-s-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3533","title":{"rendered":"Few Young Doctors Are Training To Care For U.S. Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kara Lofton, West Virginia Public Broadcasting for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>At Edgewood Summit retirement community in Charleston, W.Va., 93-year-old Mary Mullens is waxing eloquent about her geriatrician, <a href=\"http:\/\/directory.hsc.wvu.edu\/Individual\/Index\/29573\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Todd Goldberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s sure got a lot to do,\u201d she said, \u201cand does it so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia has the third oldest population in the nation, right behind Maine and Florida. But Goldberg is one of only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abms.org\/media\/84770\/2013_2014_abmscertreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">36 geriatricians<\/a> in the state. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/few-young-doctors-are-training-to-care-for-u-s-elderly\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31603492&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--lr39tyzF31vv2ZkpifLI2hPlWPQZz_MGlcJO6r_xsNeBawwHvgplVbo9OCuP9mUh2xFZl_q-jkiwCR4GVWPGq8f-TJQ&amp;_hsmi=31603492\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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