https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/health/geriatricians-shortage.html

The federal government estimates that 1 geriatrician can care for 700 patients with complicated medical needs. That means we’ll need 33,200 geriatricians by 2025 to fill the need for care among older Americans. We now have about 7,000 geriatricians, and only half of them practice full time. Paula Span reports in her recent New York Times column that few medical residents decide to specialize in geriatrics because geriatricians earn a fraction of what anesthesiologists, radiologists, and cardiologists earn. Plus, the field of geriatrics doesn’t have the “glamour or the prospect of medical heroics.” Confusing the picture is a 2009 survey finding that “geriatricians reported higher career satisfaction than most.”