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galahad_ | 1 year ago

It's a bit scary how mostly smart people writing here seriously believe doctors are a "cartel" blocking preparing of new doctors. It's scary how you just ignore obvious facts like that the problem is present in any developed country. You really believe there is an international mighty cartel of doctors, what could influence like governments and private universities as well? Even would it be so, who would benefit from the lack of doctors? It's bad for simple doctors, because the workload is greater, it's bad for doctors in leading positions, because finding new staff for their teams is more difficult, and it's bad for patients, because the doctors are chronically tired and worn out and in some areas they even got a problem just to get an appointment soon enough, because local doctors are overloaded and got a full shedule for many months in the future.

The explanation of the situation is not a mythical cartel, but the simple facts: - Any additional place for a medical student at a university costs a lot of money, and nobody wants to spend money to fund its creation. - The people in developed countries get on average older and need more medical service and consequently more working hours of doctors. - The quote of women among students is constantly growing. In my country Germany we had ca. 70% men and 30% women among students like 30-40 years ago. Now the quote is like 70% women and 30% men. Nothing bad at that, but a lot of female students get soon a family, a bunch of children and since that never ever work full time anymore.

Stastitically we got so much doctors as never before in the history, but the sum of working hours in the country is lower, while the needs are getting higher because of olding population.

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