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amluto ◴[] No.42172284[source]
> Recently, her hospital’s dermatology program received more than 600 applications for four residency slots.

Perhaps if supply of dermatologists was not so strongly limited, prices and wait times would improve.

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quantumwoke ◴[] No.42172399[source]
The problem is not limited supply but rather the ability to train sufficient supply in a reasonable timeframe which necessitates attending pay cuts (because they can't do as much work) and creation of funded structured training programs with good teachers and case mix. Source: my wife is a doctor
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1. scld ◴[] No.42172483[source]
Increasing the time and cost of the training is how the supply is limited.
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2. quantumwoke ◴[] No.42173639[source]
Can you expand on this? I don't think this is the whole story. Perhaps a concrete example would help.