With the US now a part-time workweek nation, one must wonder about the part-time, Obamacare mandated, part-time role of hospital employed, nationally unionized physicians of the very near future when all private MDs become essentially extinct?
Imagine medical residents on a less than 30 hr “workweek”...uhhh!
While M. Phillips draws attention to the utilization of scarce doctors in the UK, the part-time aspects of Obamacare have not been anticipated in the medical debate going on in the US regarding the doctor shortages looming here and the role of US female MD’s, most of which are essentially part-time, and whose practice lives are shortened compared to men. I read a few years ago that women MDs in the US had a maximum practice life of just 16 years.
The real issue here is that you learn from your cases. A physician who is 50 years old and who has worked full time will have 5000-10000 more cases (less for a surgeon) than a part-timer.