Sounds good, but it doesn’t really address our health care needs, as the financial incentives continue to greatly favor specialists.
More medical students simply means further skewing the physician work force towards specialty care.
Instead of expanding or building new schools, I like the idea of offering scholarships for full tuition instead, making medical education free for those who choose primary care as a career.
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Yes, primary care docs should get free education. But going into specialty is not the answer either. If more docs want to go into specialties, let them be what they want. The more saturated the field, the cheaper things will get for the patients. And in a down turn economy, plastic surgery, for instance, takes the “toll”.
Yes, instead of addressing the problems that have made primary care so undesireable, lets keep up the numbers by bribing the financially desperate thereby permanently establishing them for generations as second tier physicians.
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