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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Does the Doctor's Union play any role in our current shortage of doctors? I'm just speaking anecdotally, but I have talked with friends who were in med school, and they've said one of the things holding back educating more doctors is the doctors themselves. They don't want to give up their earning power by diluting the market, so they make it really competitive. This is especially true with specialized doctors.
Med school just sounds stupidly hard to get into. I get that we want to hold the training standards high, but it honestly does feel like we're missing out good candidates just because there's such a limited amount of spots open for them to compete for.
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yeah I suppose as I said maybe I'm naive here. the doctors union here I suppose could be either the AMA or the college. I think lots of docs would have different views here. again I think in many specialities, the docs I know are not concerned about too much competition and would welcome the help! (realizing there are so many factors that go into this- med school seats, training positions (with people with -compensated time-to train them), then depending on the graduating doctor or specialty (and need for hospital based resources) it may or may not be easy for someone to just set up shop
a specific area where competition may matter more is in surgical specialties and subspecialities- here there is a bit of a paradox- the staff surgeons need a steady supply of residents to help cover all the acuity ill patients i hospital and the ORs etc, but yet there is limited OR time to keep everyone employed on the other end once they graduate (here is I suppose where you see arguments like privitization gaining some traction)
anyways suspect you ask 10 docs and you'd get 10 different answers and maybe 5 different agendas