The kids have always been the soft targets of the medicine world. Here is currently concern about a growing shortage of physicians of all specialties in the US. The bulk of the population in the US is the “baby boom” generation which is now entering retirement age.
There are several problems that may develop as a result of this, the number one being that there may be more physicians retiring than there are finishing residency and the second is that this larger older population will need more care than it did when younger.
Of course, Pediatrics has a different dynamic that adult medical care, but the choice of specialty caused by greater demand of other specialties and the mini boom in population of children born between 1981 and 1995 is causing a shortage for Pediatric care as well.
Therefore the children specialists need to be real experts.