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Originally Posted by LivingAlmostLarge
Can someone explain to me HOW the AMA, can JUSTIFY graduating almost the same number of doctors in 2009 as 1959? Did our population not grow? Are we not living longer?
Funny thing.
Also funny that we are specializing more and more, yet less doctors are forced into primary care. I've got a summer student, 1st year medical student actually, telling me residencies are not 100% full. And only certain ones are even competitive. For family doctors/internal medicine it's like 80%!
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As those here in the medical field might say; it's a little challenging to get a medical degree! For the same amount of time/expenses/schooling there are other fields that will pay better with far less liability and stress. Would you as a primary care physician be willing to go through all this to earn less than a lot of assembly line workers at a factory and definitely less than equally educated folks in other fields. That's pretty much what nat'l health care promises.
Under a fed run system I don't see improvement in this area and since we're not socialists(yet!) I don't see how you can force people to go this route. All the good minds that could be doctors will now be working in other more profitable areas. I think the AMA graduates fewer today because of the above mentioned issues. This is a personal observation but there seems to be far more doctors of a foreign origin here these days than ever which I don't have a problem with and many do a fine job. I think the reason is that we don't have students willing to devote the time and money to make less than they could in other areas. Nationalized healthcare will exacerbate this problem of finding good doctors exponentially...just my opinion . Everyone may get treated but no one will get treated well.