Doctor, Doctor: How can we cure our chronic NHS shortage? Doctor, Doctor: How can we cure our chronic NHS shortage? Shortages of PPE and ventilators have been at the top of the agenda during this pandemic, but such attention has masked a far more intractable problem: the global shortage of doctors. According to one forecast, in 10 years there will be a global deficit of 400,000 doctors, with that undersupply spread between 32 OECD countries. [...]