“Why would you voluntarily make your daily life actually unpleasant just to increase an already high income that you’ll probably have less time to enjoy anyway?”
IIRC, dentists have some of the highest rates of depression and suicide of any profession. As for if this means things could only get better under a new business model, increased earnings would translate to earlier retirements (and by extension lower supply of labor), or if dentists would prefer to keep their current earnings over trying a potentially more intensive job, I can’t say.
“Why would you voluntarily make your daily life actually unpleasant just to increase an already high income that you’ll probably have less time to enjoy anyway?”
IIRC, dentists have some of the highest rates of depression and suicide of any profession. As for if this means things could only get better under a new business model, increased earnings would translate to earlier retirements (and by extension lower supply of labor), or if dentists would prefer to keep their current earnings over trying a potentially more intensive job, I can’t say.
I’m pretty sure that this is incorrect compared to healthcare more broadly, although the best I can come up with is this meta-analysis: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226361&type=printable
Which has this to say: