yes, an extra million is a bit much... what is happening is that 1) baby- boomers generation of doctors is retiring, and it's estimated that in the next 15 yrs we will lose about 250,000 of them - and this is already taken into an account with increasing med schools enrollments and increased residency quotas and 2) - a huge number of docs is going into specialty care and primary care is largely undeserved, especially in some urban and rural areas.... what to do about this? - hey, pay us better, more folks will stay in primary care.

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