Medicine's labor shortage will be huge, and medtech won't fix it
PAstynome · x · 2026-10-30
The author argues that the coming labor shortage in medicine is badly underestimated: doctors and nurses will earn more, and the medtech he has seen cannot close the gap, so the US will likely import more foreign doctors. The quoted post adds that the physical world has real bottlenecks, citing failed predictions of mass trucker unemployment.
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