Primary Care And Specialty Care In The United States

Primary and Specialty Care
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Why there an imbalance between primary care and specialty care in the United States
There is a significant disparity between healthcare professionals in the United States. The imbalance has posed a huge challenge to providing quality health care to the citizens. Primary healthcare professionals who majorly entails family practice, pediatrics and internal medicine have greatly reduced relative to the country’s population in recent years. On the other hand, specialty health care professionals who are highly trained and specialized in a specific field such as dermatology, oncology, cardiology among others have been increasing. Here below are some of the reasons why there has been increasing disproportion of healthcare professionals in the country.
Specialty care givers earn more than the primary healthcare givers. The services of specialty caregivers are expensive and they rake in more money for them. Medical students therefore opt to specialize to earn more money to warrant them a better lif...