The demand is indeed growing, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). With up to 30 million people newly gaining insurance coverage starting in 2014 and 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day for the next 2 decades, the nation faces a shortage of more than 91,000 physicians by 2020, split evenly between primary and specialty care, the AAMC predicts.

According to this year’s National Resident Matching Program, graduating medical students increasingly appear to be interested in careers in primary care. The percentage of students choosing residencies in family medicine was up 39% in 2013 from 2012, and increases also were seen in those choosing internal medicine–primary care. 

Dallas has many hospitals and a number of medical research facilities within its city limits. One major research centre is the Dallas Medical District with the UT Southwestern Medical Center in the Stemmons Corridor, along with the affiliated UT Southwestern Medical School. The health care complex includes within its bounds Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children's Medical Center, William P. Clements University Hospital (formerly St. Paul University Hospital), and the Zale Lipshy University Hospital.

Dallas also has a VA hospital in the southern portion of the city, the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The center is home to a Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP), part of an initiative by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide mail-order prescriptions to veterans using computerization at strategic locations throughout the United States..

Parkland Memorial Hospital is named one of Modern Healthcare's "25 busiest community hospital emergency departments". Parkland is a 2006 Professional Research Consultants Excellence in Healthcare award winner for Patient Perception and Overall Quality of Care.^.

Other hospitals in the city include Baylor University Medical Center in East Dallas, Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Oak Cliff, Methodist Charlton Medical Center near Duncanville, Medical City Dallas Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital in North Dallas, and the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Oak Lawn.