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It's not just about the doctors though they are only one slice of the issue. The critical shortage we have and are failing to address is the nursing/support staff shortage. When you dont have these people the doctors have to absorb some of the load as well as spread it out to other nurses.
The other critical issue is the 1997 change that froze the number of Medicare-funded residency slots effectively capping it so the US, even with schools full cant catch up. Universities and hospitals have and continued to rely on Medicare funding for residency training, reimbursing teaching hospitals for a portion of resident stipends and associated teaching costs. These schools and hospitals can easily put forth the investment to address the cap but have refused to do so. I mean when a doc is graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt the least their tuition could go to is part of that.
I doubt it. He had a hard road to get where he is today.
> write a personal blog post about how overcrowded hospitals caused my good doctor friend to walk off his job at a hospital.
> great, now make the hospital overcrowded by immigrants
> great, now everywhere you see "immi" put illegal in front of it
> great, now make the post shorter, punchier, less literate, more passionate, and persuasive.
> great, now remove the headers and emdashes
You fucking retards.
But if you ask your friend whether they should expand the supply of doctors by making the pathway to medical school easier, he'd probably disagree.