Tricia Pendergrast, MD
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Monday 22 June 2026 21:27:41 GMT
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Frank Watson, MD :
The wartime exemption is weird, because at minimum it takes 7 years to create a fully trained, board certified Doctor. If you need doctors for a current war, they still will have the shortage. And again, important to remember less doctors of color means, among many thing, less people serving MUAa(medically underserved areas) and HPSAs(health professional shortage areas) and the disparities in care persist. More med schools don’t even necessarily mean more doctors practicing in Underserved areas, so many people change their minds on their specialty and where they want to practice. Still, more opportunities for everyone is a start
2026-07-21 20:09:57
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Tiktokgavemenousename :
Personally I’m a little more concerned about the explosion of DO schools and the very small expansion of residencies. Going to look like Hunger Games soon
2026-06-22 22:38:07
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user73208713945012 :
This is not the full picture at all but ok. The “shortage” of physicians is also very specialty dependent and location dependent. The shortage is big in primary care in rural areas, but in a variety of urban areas there is an oversupply of various specialties. I’m not saying that you’ve said anything false, but I think some lay people misunderstand the “AMA as reason for physician shortage” narrative and I don’t think this kind of narrative helps people understand the nuances. It is also driven heavily by reimbursements and hospital pay structures. Physicians don’t want to go be overworked for relatively low pay in less desirable areas, and many hospital systems don’t want incentivize them with competitive enough wages to get them to come to random towns.
2026-06-22 21:46:11
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Chrissy CRNA :
Yep and the relaxed position change is extremely recent. For example, in the 90s congress was ready to fund more residency spots (bipartisan support) and the AMA tanked it once again. It’s so important to have the full context of this history - especially as people seem puzzled by the explosion of NP/PA/CRNA programs across the US. We did not get here by mistake
2026-06-23 13:12:37
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BlancoLag :
It’s not just as simple as opening up more spots, we’d never more academic facilities, which means we’d need to nurses, more techs, more CNAs before we even think about it hiring more physicians and adding more residents and then opening more spots for med students
2026-06-23 00:51:00
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Holly K :
The AMA has never done squat for us. I stopped paying dues years ago
2026-06-23 00:51:38
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A :
This is missing the mark, arguably just as limited residencies as well as med school spots, but hospitals and corporate owned health systems more so to wanting to limit docs because they have to pay them, I’d argue this is the largest issue.
2026-06-23 10:34:51
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yepitsmefosho :
Much more complicated than making it more lucrative for physicians. The quality of medical education was very poor and wildly under standardized prior to Flexner.
2026-06-22 22:06:00
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James Frankel :
I was dismissed during 3rd year due to health reasons. I’ve been considering reapplying but I really just don’t know 😩
2026-06-22 22:42:20
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Paul Showers :
I’d call it a symptom of our country’s void in leadership.
2026-06-23 01:42:47
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Medicine_Faith_Fashion :
Yup I applied 3 cycles 1st 0 interviews, 2nd 1 waitlist 3rd 2 waitlist then I decided to go elsewhere specially I had 0 $$
2026-06-22 23:18:43
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Dr.Jimbo :
This is a false narrative. The Flexner report closed “medical schools” that were based on apprenticeships, lacked scientific basis for teaching clinical medicine, etc.
2026-06-22 22:47:04
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Iraq lobster :
Let’s not forget that part of making medicine more lucrative had the AMA actively smear and displace midwives
2026-06-22 22:15:23
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Mattyfred_ :
I hated them ever since they spammed my mailbox
2026-06-23 00:47:09
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Doc-doc :
AMA has nothing to do with it , and the number has grown dramatically-
2026-06-23 09:23:26
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