![]() As the pandemic has made clear, we need medical abundance in the 21st century. In January, I wrote that America needs an abundance agenda-a plan to attack the problems of scarcity in our housing, infrastructure, labor force, and, yes, health-care system. “There is a huge scarcity of primary-care doctors, like pediatricians, and many of us are operating in a scarcity framework without enough resources,” Erickson told me. But it’s hardly unusual in the United States, which has the longest, most expensive medical-education system in the developed world, and among the lowest number of physicians per capita. ![]() ![]() Her dream was realized at the steep price of 12 consecutive years of learning and training, plus about $400,000 of debt.Įrickson’s story would be exceptional in just about any other country. In 2014, she joined the faculty of Duke’s School of Medicine. Then came three years of residency at Duke University, plus one final year as chief resident. After four years of premed classes, she went straight to medical school at Wake Forest University, which took another four years. Because she understood that the earliest health interventions are among the most important, she set herself on a pediatrics track. ![]() B y the time Elizabeth Erickson was a freshman at Davidson College in 2002, she knew she wanted to become a doctor. ![]()
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