Abstract
We don’t have enough doctors. This is odd because we have plenty of applicants, good universities, and the money spent on training is a fraction of the cost incurred by a limited supply. For example, locum costs in primary care are £500 a day and, incredibly, some consultants are being paid £375 000 a year.1 Scarcity is highly profitable. Is this scarcity by intent? An attempt over generations by doctors to maintain high pay and the status of the profession with no care for the negative impact on patients? Consider also if the NHS had more doctors and shorter …
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