[hesdeadjim]

My father was a GP who ran and taught a residency program for the speciality. In the 80s and 90s the program was extremely competitive, but by the 00’s they struggled to fill a class.

Med students caught on, why work your ass off in the most thankless field of medicine to make 200-300k when you could be a cardiologist and make $1mm reading X-rays?

[ActionHank]

It also takes ages to see any specialists, so it's not like there is a glut of cardiologists running around.

[bryanlarsen]

The bottleneck is the residency programs. The cardiology residencies are massively oversubscribed, whereas the GP residencies get the dregs.

[cybercity]

Every few weeks they do a walk-in (or crawl-in) for those who are not insured. It's not a thankless job but it sure as hell doesn't pay the bills.

[soperj]

Who's not insured?

[beaeglebeached]

'Market' failure. Something is interfering with supply and demand.