KevinMD March 1, 2025
As a board-certified internal medicine physician and hospitalist with over 12 years of experience, I find myself grappling with an unsettling thought: I cannot, in good conscience, encourage medical students with clinical ambitions to pursue any general medicine field.
This may seem like a harsh assessment, but in my opinion, the writing is on the wall for general physicians. While those of us already established in practice are likely to have a decade or more before our roles become obsolete, the future for those entering the field now appears increasingly uncertain.
An unsustainable job
After investing a decade to get their degree and complete residency, often taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt, physicians who enter general...
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