Will the healthcare workforce of the future bear little resemblance to what exists today? Roles are changing and non-physician clinicians have taken on increasingly more responsibility.
As health care delivery has become more of a team effort, doctors now have more control over their personal lives but less over their professional ones. For patients, that ultimately means that care is less personal but more proficient.
An increasing number of young physicians are accepting salaried positions with hospitals and health systems instead of opening private practices of their own.