Fewer Americans saw doctors during "Great Recession"

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Americans made fewer trips to their doctors’ offices during the Great Recession than they did earlier in the decade, according to new research. “These are not dramatic drops, but in our healthcare system we’re used to our numbers going up… So just seeing a reverse in the trend is interesting,” said Karoline Mortensen, the study’s lead author from the University of Maryland in College Park. …