The question is whether there really is a shortage at all. The article makes the good point that the expansion of medical school enrollment is a mistake and that the forecasted shortage is really due to poor organization of health care. Increasing supply will have a number of negative effects including reducing physician income.
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Originally Posted by GeorgeMD2B
The future need for a lot of foreign medical graduates will probably wane, more medical schools are opening up in the US. Osteopathic schools are the ones expanding the most, many people who would have gone to the Caribbean will probably go to these DO programs in the future.
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