Primary Care Doctors

Todays topic: Shortage of Primary Care Doctors

How did this problem grow to be? My personal thought is that we need to look to the medical schools. Why would they allow the students to dictate the numbers in various fields of medicine? Should not the more specialized areas (ie, more lucrative) be something earned not by who is willing to simply invest a bit more upfront, but those who are the most talented in that area. A select group. Could there be a correlation between the increase in medical mistakes and the generic hodgepodge of medical specialists that grows out of the fact that making 100K/year is not enough income, so they want to specialize to make 250K+/year.

HUH????

Why has financial incentive driven the medical profession? Wasn't there some sort of oath of service associated with medicine, that has nothing, whatsoever, to do with financial gain? Are they truly intimating that people would not go into medicine unless they can be insanely wealthy? Perhaps those who have that particular motivation have no business in the medical field to begin with, and should instead go into finance?

Is it the financial ethic that has driven medicine these past 40 years, the main reason that the cost of healthcare has grown in epidemic proportions? I say there is definitely a ripple effect in action here and that the AMA better wake up and reintroduce ethics and use their influence to see that all doctors are trained to be primary care physicians and only those who have a true talent (in other words, compete for the specialized fields, based on those who demonstrate a true commitment, as well as, the skill and instinct to perform with excellence) should be allowed to take on specialties, and only as the demand requires it.