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Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors... by hesdeadjim on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:05AM (#39090961)
My father was a GP who ran and taught a residency program for the speciality. In the 80s and 90s the program was extremely competitive, but by the 00’s they struggled to fill a class.

Med students caught on, why work your ass off in the most thankless field of medicine to make 200-300k when you could be a cardiologist and make $1mm reading X-rays?

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Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors... by ActionHank on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:06AM (#39090993)
It also takes ages to see any specialists, so it's not like there is a glut of cardiologists running around.
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Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors... by bryanlarsen on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:16AM (#39091192)
The bottleneck is the residency programs. The cardiology residencies are massively oversubscribed, whereas the GP residencies get the dregs.
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Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors... by beaeglebeached on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:15AM (#39091159)
'Market' failure. Something is interfering with supply and demand.
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Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors... by cybercity on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:13AM (#39091131)
Every few weeks they do a walk-in (or crawl-in) for those who are not insured. It's not a thankless job but it sure as hell doesn't pay the bills.
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Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors... by soperj on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:13PM (#39092055)
Who's not insured?
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