There are fewer physicians because medical school is expensive and the student is going into the workforce 4 years later than other college graduates. After going into practice the physician is not his / her own boss. Their practice is run by insurance companies and the government. Medicare, Medicaid and insurance reinbursemets are decreasing each year. Expensive equipment, large number of staff needed to process all of the paper work are causing the physicians overhead to go through the roof. That is why we are having fewer doctors. Who would what to go through all of that? Oh, and then patients are non compliant and call them incompetent.
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