U.S. faces 90,000 doctor shortage by 2025, medical school association warns

“The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the association that represents medical schools and teaching hospitals reported Tuesday.” …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/03/03/u-s-faces-90000-doctor-shortage-by-2025-medical-school-association-warns/

Most of the physicians I know count every day in which they cure disease as a good day. Not exactly sure how an entire career of treating chronic disease will play out with young students considering this field.

My husband is a physician and he does not want our daughter to go into medicine. She has no interest in any form of healthcare field.

@VANURSEPRAC
Can you explain why your husband doesn’t want her to go into medicine?

If we venture farther into socialized medicine, will doctors’ salaries fall to such a degree that the expense and hard work of med school will become less and less worth the trouble?

What happens if everyone has insurance but we have to wait, and wait, and wait for appointments (and worse, wait longer for ER visits) because we have half the doctors we need?

The profit incentive is a very real thing for entrepreneurs and investors and I presume it is for many doctors as well.

“Profit incentive” isn’t just for entrepreneurs and investors. Everyone wants to be fairly compensated for what they do.

Moreover, compensation isn’t just about money. Most of the physicians and surgeons I know would not do it again and they certainly don’t encourage their children to do it because of what medicine has become, not because of plummeting reimbursements.