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Why not simply pay GPs a decent wage, thereby attracting more people into the industry?
The issue is they pay specialists grossly unreasonable wages, so thats where all the 2nd+ generation med students who have the best chamce at leaping over all of the arbitrary hurdles to med achool acceptance set their sights.
Wages are not a zero-sum issue. Raise the wages of GPs, and that gap narrows. With a narrower gap, fewer students will try to hop it, as the benefits are less. Or in other words, it becomes easier and more profitable to be a GP.
There is no reason why specialist wages need to be eviscerated. You can have high wages for both specialists and GPs. And in the end, we need plenty of people going into both.
Yes, there is. We pay specialists fuck-you money, and enable a rigid social hierarchy within a profession that exists to help others.
It's already questionable that GPs are underpaid. Overworked, sure, but they already make signidicantly more than the median income, and well above a living wage, in a society where many work twice as long and just as hard for peanuts.
As a society, we don't need to be enabling the structural narcisim of medical specialists with kingly wages. It's a social sickness.
If specialists want to out-earn the rest of us by a factor of 5 or more, maybe they should work 5 or more jobs.
Wow, that is one of the most bleedingly ignorant things I have read in a damn long time.