Physicians usually end up in places where there are already enough. Medical Schools” the response has been an expansion in the number of medical schools in the US and the AAMC has called for an increase in enrollment by 30%. In a recent New York Times article “After Years of Quiet, Expecting a Boom in U.S. Along with other factors including an aging population and retiring workforce, the AAMC projects a shortage of 150,000 physicians across all specialties by 2025. Sure sounds like an attractive field combined with 10 or more years of education and training. These include rising costs to practice, rising malpractice insurance fees, repaying school debt, and lower salaries with longer hours(a 7% decline in real salary when adjusted for inflation) just to name a few and to not mention the daily difficulties faced by doctors. An article from 2008 titled “Reasons Not to Become a Doctor” from Forbes neatly summarizes the difficulties faced by doctors in the US. Although not in the same realm as the song by the Backstreet Boys, becoming a doctor contains its own share of lifetime heartache.
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