The outrageous cost of working in medicine

Over the past two decades, medical school tuition has increased by 312 percent in public institutions and 165 percent in private institutions. This has left students in the health professions with enormous amounts of student debt and, perhaps even worse, has turned many others away from pursuing such fields all together.

Projections show that we will need 124,000 more physicians, 157,000 more pharmacists and up to 1 million more nurses in the United States over the next 10 to 20 years, in part due to expanded coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Yet today, low-income students are discouraged from applying to medical, dental and other health programs because of high tuition and insufficient scholarship funds.

By Louis W. Sullivan

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