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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a doctor in primary care. If you want an MD pcp doctor in the future with good appointment times and someone who has time to listen etc this is what the future holds. For many it’s either this or leaving medicine all together because the current landscape is not sustainable.

In the future it will be either MD via concierge for the rich and a rotating group of NP/PA with less training for everyone else. [/quote]

Or maybe the AMA and AAMC should be treated as cartels that they are and busted up? [b] It’s absolutely insane we cap the number of physicians degreed per year when the entire country is facing an access crisis.[/b]  Of course the docs don’t want to take a hit to their salaries though, so we have this insane system limiting the number of accredited schools and graduates every year.   They also need to msssively increase the number of residency slots available every year.  [/quote]

This should be more widely known. It's not the ACA's fault that more people have access to healthcare now. The alternative is that these people do NOT have access, and that is not the solution. The problem is that there is more demand, and yet the supply has been frozen for years. Decades even. The residency issue is bananas. So few spots, and then they pride themselves on crushing the residents to dust. The whole system is f-ed up. [/quote]

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