Specialist Surfeit; Primary Care Paucity
It's schadenfreude: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. That's where I find myself as I observe the surfeit of specialists juxtaposed to a dearth of primary care docs. As Dr. Pauline W. Chen said in "Where Have All the Doctors Gone?"—"I [don’t] envy Mr. Obama.... Any attempt to make health care more accessible will be doomed to failure without an adequate number of primary care physicians and a strong primary care system."
