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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number of doctors is kept artificially low. This is part of the reason there are too few doctors. [/quote] There are only about 25,000 medical school applicants admitted every year out of 50,000 applicants in a country of 350 million people. And don’t tell me about the Medicare funded residency spot caps keeping this low because I’m sure the AMA lobbies hard to make sure that isn’t raised either. [/quote] That's appalling -- if you assume each of those doctors works full time for 30 years (which they don't), that's still only one doctor for about every 450 people. That really doesn't seem like enough. I do think the switch from majority male to majority female has made a noticeable difference. Almost none of the female doctors I know work part-time. And the men have all gone into higher paying fields or specialties. [/quote]
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