Wednesday, November 19, 2008

This is Not a Good Sign -- Many Doctors Plan to Quit or Cut Back

Couple this sentiment with Obama's plans for universal health care and we have a disaster on the horizon. This is bad. Like whose your Costa Rican family doctor bad.

Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

And 60 percent of 12,000 general practice physicians found they would not recommend medicine as a career.

The survey adds to building evidence that not enough internal medicine or family practice doctors are trained or practicing in the United States, although there are plenty of specialist physicians.

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