2018. Those concerns are mainly dependent on subspecialty. If you’re in family medicine or internal medicine, it is harder to run your own practice these days.

2018. Those concerns are mainly dependent on subspecialty. If you’re in family medicine or internal medicine, it is harder to run your own practice these days. You still have much more autonomy than nearly every other employee in other professions. But I wouldn’t recommend my kids go into family medicine. If you’re say a pediatric emergency medicine doctor, or a maternal fetal medicine doctor, there just aren’t enough of you to be just a cog. Increasing the number of mid level practitioners has been happening for a while, but it hasn’t had much impact on salaries [1]. My wife isn’t concerned. 1. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/nrp/2012/671974/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/nrp/2012/671974/