Survey indicates nearly half of primary care physicians would consider leaving medicine soon.

CNN reports that almost "half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative." After sending "questionnaires to more than 150,000 doctors nationwide," of which 12,000 responded, the Physicians' Foundation also discovered that "many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there's too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies." If such predictions eventually manifest, it "could be devastating to the healthcare industry," as a "U.S. shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2025 was predicted at last week's American Medical Association annual meeting."
Comment: This issue keeps showing up but there is no move by the medical schools and accrediting agencies to start the process needed to solve this problem.