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Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries by giarc on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:38AM (#15757584)
That's by design, and not in some secretive, nefarious way. People will drop out of med school.

There is also a lot of residency spots that go unfilled. I know infectious disease is struggling to get bodies into spaces.

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Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries by sxg on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:12AM (#15757888)
The drop out rate for med school is under 5%. Infectious disease is a 3 year fellowship that's done after completing a 3 year internal medicine residency. Oddly, the average salary for infectious disease specialists is lower than that of internal medicine physicians. Economically, it doesn't make sense for internal medicine physicians to spend 3 years doing a fellowship only to make less money on the other end. On top of that, these physicians are missing out on an attending's salary during those 3 years of fellowship.
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Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries by priam on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:41AM (#15757610)
Yes some drop out and residency positions go unfilled, but please see Figure 1!

http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Main-Match-Re...

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