New Jersey’s Disappearing Doctors
Posted: Sep 26, 2013 10:17 AM EST Updated: Sep 26, 2013 11:25 AM EST
By Tamara Laine, @ChasingTamara
Neptune, New Jersey (My9NJ) –
New Jersey is experiencing a shortage of doctors. In fact, it’s projected that by 2020 the state will be about 3,000 primary care physicians short of what is needed to give optimal health care.
So why are doctors fleeing the Garden State?
According to Deborah Briggs, the President and CEO of the Council of Teaching Hospitals, New Jersey loses nearly 70% of the doctors it educates to other states. This is well below the national average of a 48% retention rate.
In other words, in 2013 New Jersey only kept about 34% of the doctors who were educated and trained in the state.
https://www.my9nj.com/story/23536849/new-jerseys-disappearing-doctors
Because the government won’t let Dr.’s make a good living considering the amount of work they put in to become doctors in the first place, and NJ is a high cost of living state. Not very surprising that those who nonetheless choose to become doctors don’t stick around NJ.
Any doctor makes multiple six figure incomes. I don’t shed a tear for them.
you might when you cant get one