The Apex of The Medical Profession by Dan Abshear
**Guest Bloggers are welcome on this site as a way to encourage voices from all stakeholders and perspectives. The opinions do not necessarily agree with that of the host blogger, Mary Ellen Mannix. In recent times, others have appeared to express concern about the apparent shortage of primary care doctors in the United States. Both presently as well as in the years to come, others speculate that the shortage of primary care doctors (PCPs) will continue to progress to even greater absence of PCPs that what exists now.Less than 20 percent of medical school graduates go for primary care as a specialty as a residency program today. Typically, the main reason believed by many is lack of pay compared with other medical specialties. Some anticipate a shortage of 60 thousand or so primary care doctors in the future within the United States. The PCP doctors who practice right now would not recommend their specialty, or their profession, it has been reported. I believe their value as PCPs has n...