From the Journal of Medicine:
“The truth is that medical students—and this is common knowledge among physicians—have long been deterred from going into primary care not only for economic reasons but for reasons connected to professional prestige,” Singleton says. “Many primary care physicians have told us that during medical school they were counseled by their professors to go into a medical specialty rather than into primary care, because the ‘best students’ specialize.”
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