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Re:Sleep is more important than food by gaius on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @02:40PM (#2306066)
The shortage is purely artificial; the AMA keeps a cap on numbers to make sure pay stays high.
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Re:Sleep is more important than food by wtn on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @03:40PM (#2306297)
The Maine Experiment suggests that when an area has more doctors, they administer more procedures, many of them unnecessary. This counters your simple supply-demand argument--doctors actually manipulate demand.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1135711...

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Re:Sleep is more important than food by esoteriq on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @04:41PM (#2306570)
Yes, but that doesn't refute my point. My point was sleep deprivation doesn't make better doctors or even encourage better doctors to stay.

Frankly, I'm surprised that as many doctors make it through - the working conditions are pretty terrible. Maybe the pay makes up for it, but you only get paid well once you get out of your residency or fellowship.

Better conditions will probably produce better doctors, not subpar doctors.

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Re:Sleep is more important than food by joe_the_user on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @03:09PM (#2306172)
Yes it is. Of course hazing/weeding processes are the means used to achieve this.
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