Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and associate professor at Harvard School of Public Health, told the New York Times in 2009 that: “There’s been a drastic decline in the number of geriatricians — and just 300 new ones are being trained each year — yet the number of people over 65 will double in the next 20 years.” Unfortunately, 3 years later, the numbers have not budged.