Kentucky lost nearly 600 physicians between the years 2019 and 2022. That’s according to Patrick Padgett, the executive director of the Kentucky Medical Association, who testified before the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services in Frankfort Wednesday. We asked him what that means for health care in the commonwealth.
"Means that people have to wait longer to see a physician. I think that anyone around the state who tries to get in to see a physician, whatever the physician specialty, wherever they're located, when you have to wait weeks, or sometimes months to get in to see a physician, you're experiencing this problem."
