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by amelius
2955 days ago
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Except lawyers and doctors are highly protective of their employment and status. There's often a numerus clausus in universities, limiting the number of doctors that enter the field. And there's the FDA which controls medical practices, and since they consist of medically trained people, they are probably also highly protective of the status quo. |
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The number of doctors that enter the field is limited not by the number of people who graduate with medical degrees, but by the number of residency positions available for training. Every year, we graduate more medical students than we have residency slots available, and that's not including foreign graduates who do their medical studies abroad but want to practice in the US. There is no artificial limit for residency slots; the limit is the amount of funding available.
Most of these are heavily subsidized by the government. Hospitals are free to create their own positions in addition, if they can fund them themselves. Very few do, because residency programs actually lose money on margin.