Med schools don't want more students, they want to gate-keep their profession so they can make boatloads of cash from it. When I was looking at med schools in Canada a few years ago, the head of Queen's University's medical school was making $600k a year as nothing more than a politician-administrator. They get like 80 students a year...
The dark secret of medicine is that your doctor is a midwit who mostly just punches your symptoms into Google or the hospital's proprietary ChatGPT shell and reads you the result. The purpose of the decade of school and the residency and the loans and the licensing and all that shit is to keep other people from competing with his keyboard pressing profession.
This is why military medics and the old MASH doctors cannot be certified in most states. Your average military pilot (if they're not a DIE hire) can get a commercial pilot's license fairly easily. A MASH doctor who has done open-heart surgery under fire cannot be legally called "Doctor."
Med schools don't want more students, they want to gate-keep their profession so they can make boatloads of cash from it. When I was looking at med schools in Canada a few years ago, the head of Queen's University's medical school was making $600k a year as nothing more than a politician-administrator. They get like 80 students a year...
The dark secret of medicine is that your doctor is a midwit who mostly just punches your symptoms into Google or the hospital's proprietary ChatGPT shell and reads you the result. The purpose of the decade of school and the residency and the loans and the licensing and all that shit is to keep other people from competing with his keyboard pressing profession.
It's been this way for a while, but the doctors and medical establishment considers themselves too important to fail.
This is why military medics and the old MASH doctors cannot be certified in most states. Your average military pilot (if they're not a DIE hire) can get a commercial pilot's license fairly easily. A MASH doctor who has done open-heart surgery under fire cannot be legally called "Doctor."
Physicians aren't necessarily smart - but they certainly aren't lazy.
It didn't used to be like this