The usual suspects are reasons: malpractice, reimbursement and high cost of living.
One new reason is cited however. The rise of concierge practices:
Dr. Greenwald also noted another significant reason for physician shortages – not a physical lack of physicians, but rather many physicians changing to so-called “concierge” medicine . . .
. . . Greenwald said this means that when one doctor leaves general private practice and become a concierge practitioner, “then about 1,500 persons lose their doctor” – effectively creating a physician shortage, even when the actual number of local doctors hasn’t changed.
