Specialty Medicine Leaving Many
As you learned from the chapters and video lectures, there is a disbalance in the supply and demand of health care professionals. Some experts think that this happens in the US since too many medical students go into specialty medicine leaving many spots available in primary care while others believe that the problem is the overreliance of physicians instead of using other health care professionals to address a large majority of health care needs. What do you think are the real drivers of this disbalance? What would you do to improve this situation?