An interesting thing I'm seeing happening in primary care is that doctors are being replaced by doctor adjacent professions like Nurse Practitioner, Physician

An interesting thing I'm seeing happening in primary care is that doctors are being replaced by doctor adjacent professions like Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, etc. A doctor spends a decade working 60 to 80 hour weeks studying medicine whereas an NP is a Master degree, I think which can be obtained online. There doesn't appear to be clear results yet in studies on the outcomes of NP's vs MD's (see reference). Another argument is that maybe all that medical school training is overkill in Primary Care and this is perfect setting for NP's or PA's. And also maybe most doctors are not ambitious and forget most of the training they're not using on a daily basis anyway. I think it would be pretty funny if after more studies NP's showed no different outcomes than MD's. Interesting write up on NP outcomes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18766097/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18766097/