"10 Things Your Primary-Care Physician Won’t Tell You"

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?”

Related posts:

1. Free medical school for students who choose primary care?
2. Massachusetts primary care
3. Medical students want to become primary care doctors, until reality hits
4. Males = specialists, females = primary care physicians
5. Primary care today
6. Even physician assistants are dissing primary care
7. Medical students avoiding primary care, is it more than money?

  Follow on Twitter   Subscribe

Tagged as: primary care, residency