Connecticut medicine
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Connecticut medicine · Dec 1999
A surplus of physicians? The view of internists at a single institution.
The sizable increase in the United States physician workforce over the last 25 years has led to a concern by health policy analysts that we are training too few generalist physicians, too many specialists and too many doctors altogether. Nearly all analysts' studies report that the United States currently has an adequate or more than adequate supply of physicians; however, few reports discuss practicing physicians' view of the issues. ⋯ In contrast to the opinion of most health policy analysts, the majority of internists associated with our institution do not believe that there is or will be a physician surplus in the United States. Reasons for a difference of opinion between practicing internists and health policy analysts are worthy of further study.