A foretaste of a future without medical practices in the countryside

Created: 01/13/2023, 03:00 p.m

By: Timo Aichele

Timo Aichele, Deputy Editor-in-Chief © Aichele

With the closure of the MVZ in Taufkirchen, the municipality loses a locational advantage.

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The task of the MVZ location in Taufkirchen is frustrating.

There you have modern practice rooms, the public sector as support and a large catchment area.

But none of that helps if not enough doctors want to work there.

Studies have been available for decades, according to which there will be a shortage of 500,000 qualified workers in Germany every year in the 2020s.

We are watching live as these predictions become reality.

The aging society is not producing enough young high performers.

So much for the general shortage of skilled workers.

It develops particularly fatally in the medical field.

The hospitals were coldly trimmed for profitability.

Now one is surprised that nursing is not an attractive profession for young people.

The same is increasingly true for the respected and well-paid medical careers.

A reversal is not in sight.

The closure of the MVZ is only a foretaste of a future without any medical practices in smaller towns.

From Taufkirchen's perspective, it would have been absolutely necessary not to look at the short-term profitability, but to "overcome a dry spell", as former mayor Franz Hofstetter demanded.

The MVZ could have been a location advantage.

So he's gone.