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Originally Posted by DonovanTrent
Regarding doctors, if it were more financially attractive to be a GP than a specialist, you'd see more GPs than specialists. GPs would be far more valuable in regards to lowcost and/or pro-bono than specialists. Bring your kids to "free knee clinic day"? eh.
I like the original post that started this thread. Unfortunately, it requires Americans in general to become responsible for their own actions. That blows it right out of the realm of the possible.
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Money is only a part of it, actually.
What's more important is that it lacks prestige, often lacks challenge, and still takes a lot of time and requires lots of responsibility.
GPs spend lots of time just diagnosing various forms of crotch rot, telling people to take some rest and listening to old people who are merely lonely. But they still have to be alert all the time because with every patient, there's a chance that something's really wrong, and they still get woken up at 4 in the morning for what may or may not be actual emergencies.
The best way to make the job of GPs more attractive would probably be to have more nurse practitioners. They can do 95% of what GPs can do, allowing GPs to focus on the things they're actually needed for instead of the other stuff.