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Physicians are too greedy

Well then, he'll be glad when they all leave the state!

Funny how neither Richardson nor the media seems to have noticed a little news item a couple of days ago: we're facing a dire shortage of doctors in the next 10-20 years.

Why? Read this: we were told there was going to be a glut of doctors, so they closed med schools and cut back federal funding for doctor training. Also, baby boomer docs are starting to retire in huge numbers. The AMA admits this week that they were spectacularly WRONG. And these are the same people who want to "fix" medicine.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doctor-shortage_x.htm

It was Hillary who was instrumental in the closing down of medical schools during the Clinton admin. She thought that medical care was expensive because there were too many doctors, so she decided to make them scarce and lower expenses. This is what you get from the Ivy League.

That also caused a lot of medical students to gravitate to primary care. As a result, we've got a lot of FPs forced to compete with PAs and not enough general and specialist surgeons.

The other factor is the "feminizing" of medicine. Half of all new docs are women, and they often avoid the more physically demanding of practices (surgery), despite what you see on Grey's Anatomy. Female medical grads like FP, Internal Medicine, Opthal, Radiology and maybe Oncology, but generally not the other surgeries--

Women restrict their practices to accomodate families. It all points to a slow drain on MDs, and surgical MDs most of all.