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My father was a GP who ran and taught a residency program for the speciality. In the 80s and 90s the program was extremely competitive, but by the 00’s they str
by hesdeadjim 3y ago
My father was a GP who ran and taught a residency program for the speciality. In the 80s and 90s the program was extremely competitive, but by the 00’s they struggled to fill a class.
Med students caught on, why work your ass off in the most thankless field of medicine to make 200-300k when you could be a cardiologist and make $1mm reading X-rays?
- beaeglebeached 3y ago'Market' failure. Something is interfering with supply and demand.
- ActionHank 3y agoIt also takes ages to see any specialists, so it's not like there is a glut of cardiologists running around.
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- bryanlarsen 3y agoThe bottleneck is the residency programs. The cardiology residencies are massively oversubscribed, whereas the GP residencies get the dregs.
- cybercity 3y agoEvery few weeks they do a walk-in (or crawl-in) for those who are not insured. It's not a thankless job but it sure as hell doesn't pay the bills.
- soperj 3y agoWho's not insured?