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by matthewdgreen 794 days ago
The supply of new doctors (and residents) should at least keep pace with population growth. For whatever reason, we spent nearly two decades keeping this number flat even as population grew by 70 million. We shouldn't have to double these numbers, they all should have organically increased at a reasonable pace. But for a variety of reasons they didn't and now we have to fix the problem.