A shortage of physicians hits more than primary care. (via a reader tip)
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He also cited the disproportionate number of female pediatricians; some interrupt their residencies to have children or want to job-share once they’ve completed training.
What’s “job-share”?
And “some” isn’t very clear. Some could be five percent to fifty percent.
(I may post that paragraph in my own blog to be deliberatively provocative.)
That article is about pediatrics subspecialists.
Pediatrics is the ONLY specialty in medicine in which the subspecialists make LESS money than the general practitioners.
Its an insane phenomenon. You actually get paid less money for more years of training. I’m surprised that a single person would choose that pathway. Its ludicrous.
You certainly dont see that in adult medicine. In adults, subspecialists make double or triple what general practitioners make.
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