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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about we build more medical schools and train more doctors?
We’ve had the same number of schools and graduates for decades but our population has surged. 🤷‍♀️[/quote]

The limiting step isn't the number of seats for medical school classes, but the clinical spots for training in vivo.

For example, one of the biggest problems with NP diploma mills is that they send NP students out to find their own placements for clinical training. They can't, or what they do find is insufficient. Medical students (like NPs) don't make a clinic or hospital run more efficiently -- they are a drag on time and attention, and that's fine! They are supposed to be learners. But that means slower patient care, and when clinical situations are being driven by profit metrics (especially with private equity firm control), they are a real liability.

Upper level residents are different, as they can help quite a bit and function with some measure of autonomy. But it takes forever to get them there, and nobody in the current medical environment able to do it is willing to do it. [/quote]
And the AMA wants that residency cap to stay so that there are fewer doctors and higher salaries. It is the patients who suffer, but they don’t care. Maybe take a hard cold look at the type of people who are going into medicine. It’s bad enough now, but at least there are some decent people still left in the profession. With the arms race that is medical school admissions today, this will get even worse. It is selecting for a bunch of robots who never have any intention of seeing or touching a patient. [/quote]

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