Surgeon Shortage in San Diego Due to High House Prices

[powayseller]

article in the San Diego Daily Transcipt:

“Less than 10 percent of San Diegans are now able to buy a home here.

One effect of this trend: America’s finest city has more than 100 open positions in the police department. The reason for this: The police do not earn enough money to afford a home in the community they service. The same has become true for firemen, teachers and most other civil servants. Physicians may be next.

The 2005 Physician Workforce and Compensation Survey, conducted by the San Diego County Medical Society (SDCMS), suggests that this problem of recruitment is happening with physicians. Despite many open opportunities for family physicians and internists, these positions are becoming increasingly hard to fill. Potential recruits compare the incomes with the cost of housing and realize they will not be able to live in a home they and their families expect. We are not talking mansions here, simply decent houses in nice areas with good public schools.

The recruitment problem is not limited to primary care physicians. The 2005 SDCMS Physician Workforce and Compensation Survey found significant recruiting difficulties for general surgery, hand surgery, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, psychiatry, radiology and urology. In all of these specialties, there is a shortage in San Diego County.”

[Anonymous]

I work in health care and know this problem is a fact………physician’s wives come out here and see what they get for a million bucks (not much) and high tail it back to Hartford……

[ocrenter]

you think SD is bad. docs are leaving OC in droves!

[LookoutBelow]

Its not the Real Estate Prices !

Its our litiguous culture here in SoCal. Doctors have no problem buying houses, they make a buck or two…its their malpractice insurance they cant afford here. We can thank our lawyer population for that. I know a few doctors that are schmoe’s, But I’ve met very few lawyers who WERENT schmoe’s. They are the worst people in a society. Some are needed, but this is ridiculous. There are some good ones out there, in both professions but its getting harder and harder to find em.

Problem: 7 BILLION people on this planet
Problem: 300 MILLION people in the U.S.
Problem : 35.8 MILLION people living in Cal

We have completely overloaded the capacity of our infrastructure, ……..doom to follow.

(Schmoe- A person that is unsavory in moral values and not pleasant to be around, otherwise commonly referred to as an A$$hole)

[barnaby33]

People like to pile on RE agents, but thats a recent phenomenon. Lawyers on the other hand are a timeless source of irritation, until you need one.

My girlfriends father and stepmother are lawyers, her stepfather is a judge, none of them like lawyers either.

Josh

[equalizer]

Stop believing urban ledgends on TV. There is no malpractice problem in CA. There is a 250K cap on pain & suffering here. Texas and FL are the ones that have no caps and hence malpractice issues. The reasons the health care costs are so high in CA have to do with illegals and earthquake retrofit reqt for all hospitals.

[picpoule]

I’m a lawyer and I can tell you that 98% are schmoes. And judges are even worse than lawyers. It’s because they were that way when they were young and no one wanted to play with them, so they went into law to be professional schmoes. Yes, it’s true it’s cute to hate lawyers until you need one, but they charge way, way too much. Fortunately, I work for State government and have never had to deal with fees. The whole legal system is totally screwed up and it’s really disgusting to me. But not surprising, since the people who run it are lawyers. I only have three more years to retirement. Hooray!!

[picpoule]

Equalizer, yes, there is a cap on those damages, but an MD’s insurance premiums will increase if there are lawsuits against that MD, even if they are frivolous and get thrown out of court.

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