There are also fewer doctors delivering babies, which is exacerbated by the high malpractice insurance premiums. May be another reason fewer doctors are going into general surgery.
I am considering a career change. My family has often noted my uncanny ability to note change and home right in on an issue that everyone else misses.
I vowed after Engineering School, I would never again return to academia... but I wonder if I would make for a good G.P. country doctor like I had when I was young.
I like to fix problems... and wonder what the market will be for competitive and cost effective ala carte type care will be when the system collapses.
Probably not a very bright idea right now as the nation is bamboozled into another ponzi scheme of health insurance... when it’s the cost of care at the core... but I am considering my escape to a very rural isolated community... and am wondering if in my eventual retirement being a doctor would fulfill my need to be needed.
It’ll be okay. Obamacare has racial quotas set up more medical schools.
That’s unexpected/ Who would have guessed that increasing the demand, reducing compensation, and increasing the frustration associated with paperwork would lead to a shortage. Economists should look into that - I’ll bet there’s an undiscovered law as basic as supply and demand there.