> About the long wait time - I waited from 11pm until 8:30am (discharge) in the morning in ER of Strong Memorial hospital one day for falling and bleeding from

> About the long wait time - I waited from 11pm until 8:30am (discharge) in the morning in ER of Strong Memorial hospital one day for falling and bleeding from my nose (I thought I broke my nose, but luckily, I didn't). This is how the system is supposed to work. Even if you had broken your nose, unless it's some gaping open fracture or the bleeding can't be controlled, it's probably not a higher priority than most of the cases they see. > My sister, who lives in Rochester, NY, is waiting until May 2020 to get an appointment for yearly physical checkup. There's a significant shortage of doctors in rural areas (Rochester isn't even that rural to be honest). And yet, AMA is happily restricting the supply of new doctors by putting up multiple hurdles including exam fees (not to mention the amount of money they charge for each USMLE exam is ridiculous) and requirement to go through 8 years of education when that could have been easily reduced to just 4 for any IM (internal medicine) physician. This is a complicated problem. Our current system incents people to become specialists. Why would I want to go to school for 8 years (taking on $200-300k in student loans if I'm lucky) and then do 1-3 years of 100-hour weeks making $50k to come out making less than a twentysomething software engineer?