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June 18, 2026
Primary care shortages are driving longer wait times. Experts say fewer doctors are choosing primary care careers, while many communitiesespecially underserved areasface shortages of physicians, nurses, and specialists, creating bottlenecks for routine appointments.
System-wide healthcare pressures are slowing access. Workforce shortages, provider burnout, administrative burdens, insurance approvals, referral delays, and staffing gaps reduce clinics ability to absorb demand, even when doctors are working at full capacity.
Urgent care can offer faster treatment, but its not a complete solution. Walk-in clinics can help patients receive routine care more quickly and ease pressure on the system, but experts say the best outcomes occur when urgent care is integrated with patients primary healthcare teams to ensure continuity of care.
Many patients seeking medical appointments for fairly routine care are being offered appointment times that are sometimes months into the future.
Some of the strongest reporting comes from AMN Healthcare's 2025 national survey of physician appointment wait times, which found that the average wait time for a new patient appointment across six major specialties reached 31 days, the highest level recorded since the survey began in 2004. This was a 19% increase from 2022 and a 48% increase from 2004.
Average waits by specialty included:
OB-GYN: 41.8 days
Gastroenterology: 40 days
Dermatology: 36.5 days
Cardiology: 32.7 days
Family Medicine: 23.5 days
If this is a trend, whats behind it?
The healthcare experts we consulted cite a variety of reasons. Many told us fewer physicians are choosing to become general practitioners.
"More frequently than ever, physicians are choosing not to go into residency with primary care, Rene Hermes, chief of operations at Hermes Health in Chicago, told ConsumerAffairs. It is a tough residency, where you have to be on top of your game in all subjects, as family physicians have to properly diagnose and treat patients of all ages with a wide array of symptoms.
Other issues
Olusheyi Lawoyin, Ph.D., chief of operations at Watts Healthcare Corporation, told us that its not just a shortage of general practitioners.
In certain geographic communities, particularly those that are medically underserved, there remains a shortage of physicians, nurses, specialists, and other healthcare professionals, she said.
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