Abstract:Approximately one year ago we wrote that there was no current or impending physician glut and that the entire alleged problem of physician overabundance or underabundance was simply one of massive maldistribution on a neighborhood, city, state, regional, national, or continental basis.1 We documented that there was a giant imbalance in the doctor import-export ratios and that our country's 50:1 positive balance of trade of doctors was embarrassing. We suggested that an appropriate role for a developed country … Show more
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