You may not have noticed, but your workload is lighter. So is your wallet.

We won’t solve the physician shortage simply by increasing enrollment and building new medical schools. It’s time to realize that physicians want a work-lifestyle balance similar to that of other professionals. If we don’t make the practice of medicine more enjoyable and align it with the needs and desires of Generation X and Generation Y physicians, we’ll fall short of the number of physicians that we need to care for a growing, and an aging, population.