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• AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  Uh, your article basically confirms what I was saying: specialists get paid crazy amounts, so the motivation of doctors when they hit the real world is to specialize. But gp is where you do preventative care to avoid the specialists.
  • throwaway4220 3y ago
    "6-7x" over "100k" you were claiming earlier is not right. mean specialist versus PCP is ~50k on average, with huge regional variability. Your second point is right, so what are you gonna do? Make a medical system where preventative care and quality of care are valued? Then you'll get called a "communist" who wants "death camps" and get your birthplace questioned. So here we are. In the 70s and 80s, I'm told general practitioners made more money then specialists, something I agree with. But even now, lots of people want to do general practice. The smartest person in my med school class went into pediatrics because she loved it. Money is not the biggest motivator for speciality choice, but it is one. Isn't this the case in literally every other field? Maybe SWEs who are full stack get paid more or something?