We donāt need more doctors
We need more doctoring
50% of my time is spent on administrative tasks that I did not a medical degree to do
This is correct, just training more doctors won't help with the scarcity of physician labor.
So why aren't we discussing ways to keep the active workforce in practice?
With increasing administrative burden and decreasing reimbursement, it's no wonder more and more doctors are taking early retirement. You're burning out the established, high-quality, doctors, the ones who order fewer tests and perform fewer procedures.
Be they retired or in consulting, I've never met a doctor who left clinical medicine and regretted the decision.
The modern healthcare system, run by bureaucrats and administrators, takes young physicians, chews them up, destroys their will to continue practicing, and then wonders why physician labor is so scarce.