Tech med school responds to family doctor shortage - MYfoxLUBBOCK.COM

Primary care physicians are a dying breed.

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"Right now it's thirty percent primary care, seventy percent specialty. And it may get worse if we don't do something about it," said Dr. Steven Berk, dean of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

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