The disparity in health care between the young and the old, in reimbursement and in income, can discourage doctors from pursuing the specialty of pediatrics.

If you're a medical student looking at the range of careers that you could have after medical school, you're gonna put potential salary, earning potential in that consideration.

And what has grown over time is of course our debt, not only starting at the undergrad level, but also at the medical school level.

So education debt can be in the hundreds of thousands for new physicians that are just finishing.

And that would be the same no matter what specialty you're choosing.

So we are facing a pediatric workforce crisis.

that has been growing more severe over the last decade.

They say there's a long way to go to live up to all that we say about caring about the future of the youngest among us.