No Doctors

HARVARD UNIVERSITY has everything. It has the largest endowment of any university in america, it has more sports teams and student clubs than any other school, and arguably the best faculty and education.

You are not allowed to take more than twelve hours a semester at harvard, the average class size is seventeen students, and all students are required to take a well rounded curriculum.

But harvard has no school or department of primary care family medicine. It has one of the great med schools in the world, with experts and programs in every conceivable medical field; but nothing in family  primary care medicine.

If you want to become a general practitioner, don't go to harvard. Such is the state of health care in the united states, where family docors are in short supply, and much overworked. In general, they make good money, but not neary as good as doctors in ritzy specialties, such as cardiology or cancer research.

You can get a degree in nursing at harvard, but no family practice instruction.

Maybe what america needs is a large infusion of good old fashioned family doctors. Primary care physicians. That would lessen the huge workload of the ones we already have, and possibly drive down the cost of medical attention a bit.

Let's face, putting a price on doctoring is impossible. How much is your life worth to you? Everything? If there is going to be a free market in health care, then let's make it a real free market, with real competition. Let's get more doctors, even if we have to get them from foreign countries.

The more doctors, the more competition, the healthier the industry. Harvard has at least one professor who specializes in basket weaving, and they have billions of dollars. Training doctors might not be a bad idea.