Surplus medical doctors

Name(s): 
Oversupply of physicians
Overproduction by medical schools
Nature 
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.
Broader 
Surplus
Reduces 
Insufficient doctors
Aggravates 
Production of non-essentials [in 1 loop]
Competition for scarce patients
Unnecessary personal consumption
Unnecessary health system referrals [in 2 loops]
Lack of production for domestic consumers
Counter-productive subsidy of medical schools
Aggravated by 
Excess production capacity
Failure to plan for long-term consumer needs
Strategy(ies) 
Reducing production of specialists
Value(s) 
Overproduction
Oversupply
Surplus
Type 
(G) Very specific problems