Surplus of medical doctors

In countries where doctors are paid well and where training facilities profit financially from producing doctors, more doctors are trained than are needed to serve the population. This increases competition among doctors for patients and results in the prescription of more medical services than patients need.

1. Surplus

1. Unnecessary personal consumption
2. Unnecessary health system referrals
3. Production of non-essentials
4. Lack of production for domestic consumers
5. Counter-productive subsidy of medical schools
6. Competition for scarce patients

1. Failure to plan for long-term consumer needs
2. Excess production capacity

1. Insufficient doctors

1. Reducing production of specialists

1. Surplus
2. Oversupply
3. Overproduction