Number of doctors
Sir,—lt interests me that we are soon going to have a surplus of doctors. As the supply of patients these days is fairly constant or even dropping, will this mean open competition in the market .place for business? Will there be a place for the doctor who wishes to get more of the action by lowering his fees? Or will the doctors’ union for our benefit maintain fees at .. certain level? It seems to me entirely possible that doctors in the future could attain wages relativity with teachers. And I suppose this is reasonable when you consider they have equivalent qualifications and apparently work as many hours a week. I have been disappointed that the surplus of lawyers
has not led to a more reasonable scale of fees. Perhaps things may be different in the case of our second most lucrative profession, when the surplus actually arrives. —Yours, etc., ALAN FALLOON. June 8, 1978.
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