[JZelle]

"Statistics show that patients who are unable to pay for emergency services are more likely to sue, compounding the problem for surgeons, Dr. Keaton says."

Pretty soon there won't be any. Atlas shrugs

[stm]

"This impact comes, in part, from a shortage of surgeons faced by hospitals and emergency facilities nationwide"

Think it's bad now? Wait and see what happens if the Hildabeest gets in the WH and implements her bezillion dollar Hillarycare disaster.

[mikeus_maximus]

My son wanted to be a doctor when he was 3 years old and getting up on Staurday mornings to watch "Introducing Biology" on PBS. Both of his grandparents are physicians. He scored a 2290 SAT and will enter college as an academic sophomore. And we are all steering him away from medicine.

Greedy lawyers. liberal judges, and a litigious society have just about killed the best medical system in the world. The socialized nightmare is coming.

[fatnotlazy]

Not to worry. Hillarycare will fix this problem. *she said sarcastically*

[Proverbs 3-5]

Didn’t Billary’s first plan have something in it that told med students what they would specialize in based on the needs of the country...?

[riverdawg]

Two trends help to explain the “shortage” of general surgeons:

1. More women are going to medical school but women are less likely than men to choose surgery as a specialty.

2. Many surgeons and surgery-certified physicians are devoting a greater fraction of their practice to lucrative, elective cosmetic procedures to avoid hassles with insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid.

[TASMANIANRED]

Free Health care will be really great when there are no doctors.

[yorkie]

When I had to go to urgent care a couple months ago, the attending physician was going from room to room - speaking Spanish to patients (his voice could be heard through the curtains). I was the only one he spoke English to, in the hour I was there. The waiting room was packed with Hispanic people and children.

I asked him how those people pay for their medical care. He said, “They don’t. You and I do.” He then proceeded to tell me that Med schools are begging for students. They no longer have full classrooms. He said PA (Physician Attendants) classes are full to the brim, though.

He waved his hand at all the rooms (with the Spanish speaking patients) and said because of this, it is getting harder and harder to make a decent living as a MD.

[CholeraJoe]

Didn’t Ron Jeremy do a whole series of films about Dr. Proctor’s life?

[VOA]

Fewer surgeons answer call

1. MD's impose "birth control" by keeping a lid on the cadre of
MDs graduated each year. So, big suprise, there aren't that many MDs.

2. Then lawyers and insurance companies saw the deep pockets in
the medical field and proceeded to do what predators do.

I know that's not the complete picture.
But it does largely explain why there might be fewer working
MDs, even while the population grows.