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There must be short term pain - in 15 years you can have a lot more doctors, but we have to get them through school and residency first, and everyone already in the industry needs to work even harder to do that.


> There must be short term pain

This is medicine. That short term pain means more people die than would have before.

When specialists quit, who replaces them? You need to be trained - just book learning and shadowing during an MD is not enough.

> everyone already in the industry needs to work even harder to do that

Everyone in the industry is already working hard.

The average physician works around a 50 hour weeks but 25% work 61-80 hour weeks [0].

It's already teetering on the brink due to burnout.

[0] - https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-healt...


Demand for healthcare is super high and supply of doctors is low. And you're arguing _against_ increasing the supply? The status quo isn't a valid answer -- if doctors are already at the point of burnout, something has to be done to fix the long-term problem that has brought us to this point.




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