I was interviewed for this article in SmartMoney Magazine, which is now online:
Interest is so low that the number of primary-care internal medicine residency positions dropped by more than 50% in the past decade. “We’re not really getting the best and brightest in primary care,” says Kevin Pho, a Nashua, N.H., physician who writes the blog Kevin, MD. “And that’s where they’re needed.” . . .. . . According to one study, the income of primary-care doctors, adjusted for inflation, actually fell by 10% between 1995 and 2003. “Students are not dummies,” says Pho. “They graduate with $130,000 in debt; why should they go into primary care?”
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