Primary Care is Needed

Specialists are needed in this country and there services help many people, but the first steps to reach a specialist are to be seen by a primary care specialist. I believe that much importance has been given to specialized doctors. This respect is earned due to their many years of training, but that however does not mean that the hard work done by primary care physicians should be downplayed. Primary care physicians are the beginning of healthcare and are the ones to have more interaction with patients. However they usually are disregarded and not praised for the hard work that they do. This in turn causes many medical students to opt out of this option and pursue a more prestigious and high paying job.
With less and less people pursuing the field of primary care it causes the system to have overworked and underpaid primary care physicians. The amount of work that each primary care physician has to put in has increased significantly. The system needs to improve the way that primary care physicians are treated and the respect that they get because without them the health care system would be nonexistent.