Shortages plague hospitals

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Having enough nurses and physicians ? not hospital beds ? worries state medical officials as they prepare for the population boom coming with the military restructuring at Maryland?s Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground.

“We?ve recognized the fact that physicians need to be recruited in Maryland … and it was an issue before [the Base Realignment and Closure process] came about,” said Nancy Fielder, spokeswoman for the Maryland Hospital Association.

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