It's the same in Europe as well. It's maddening. Every year I read of massively missing doctors, and at the same time, universities reject 90% of applicants or

It's the same in Europe as well. It's maddening. Every year I read of massively missing doctors, and at the same time, universities reject 90% of applicants or so because they don't have more places. So those doctors get "imported" from poorer countries, leading to brain drain and making situation in _those_ countries even worse. It's especially bad now that the societies are getting older and boomer generation retiring. I routinely read news like "the doctor in town X is 70 y.o. and wanted to retire but his patients couldn't find a new doctor, so he came back from retirement". In France every doctor wants to live and practice in big cities, there's even a term "medical deserts". In Poland on the other hand, it's very common that a doctor either works in multiple hospitals at the same time (and sometimes also has a private practice); or having cabinets in different towns and every day being in a different town. So in those small towns you can see a specialist like "once month on Wednesdays".