If there were more doctors working in family practice, ER departments would not be like the local walk in clinics but most doctors want the bankers hours and extra billing from working walk in clinics and hospitals along with no overhead (more $$$ for them). Nobody wants family practice since it is more work to provide good continuous care than to treat and turf at the walk in and ER. This selfish greed has turned most ER departments into walk in clinics and costs the taxpayer a fortune as doctors are paid extra to treat nothing ailments which should be triaged to walk in clinics or family practice.