Originally Posted by
mpflyboy1
If a hospital opened up with shiny new equipment but wanted to hire doctors for $40k/year working night shifts and crappy benefits, then had to shut down because they couldn’t hire or keep doctors, would it be blamed on a dr shortage?
Yes, if the goal was to lower the education requirements the industry would claim MD shortage. The reason it isn’t happening is because hospitalization isn’t viewed as “one of the safest form of medical treatment”. Successful surgeries or treatments aren’t taken for granted. One of the ways the medical industry is seeking to lower staffing costs is by greater use of nurse practitioners. That being said the medical field is inherently fraught with risks and unknowns whereas our field has thoroughly matured due to less overall depth of the subject comparatively speaking. I know this isn’t a popular opinion but it’s true.