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by aianus 3923 days ago
> Personally, I prefer my doctors ... to have formal qualifications.

Why? So they can charge you more? You know medical school in the US is pass/fail and has a 96% graduation rate? Its completion at that point is practically meaningless.

And all so I have to pay $50 to get a vaccine administered because nobody is allowed to prescribe one without a $250k medical degree.
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rifung 3923 days ago
I don't see an issue with a 96% graduation rate when med schools are incredibly difficult to get in to. Not only that but even within med schools, depending on how well you do you might not get in to specific programs; for example you have to do better to be a surgeon than to be a general physician.

If they didn't have a 96% graduation rate I think we would be screwed because we already do not have enough doctors as it is. And with med schools it's not like you can increase the number of students easily as each student requires a lot of resources due to requiring residency and things like that.

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aianus 3923 days ago
The selection criteria for medical school admission has little to do with skill and more to do with how likable you are in your personal statement and interview.

After someone passes that selection criteria (which again, seems to have little to do with being a competent physician), it doesn't seem like enough of them are being filtered out for being bad at actual medicine.

I went to a good school in mathematics and we only had a 70% graduation rate. The people who dropped out or switched majors had passed the rigorous selection criteria just like the rest of us. I'm suspicious the equivalent cohort in medical school just get pushed through and graduate all the same and become bad doctors.

> And with med schools it's not like you can increase the number of students easily as each student requires a lot of resources due to requiring residency and things like that.

Most who can't hack it fail in first year. I don't think watching lectures and writing exams in first and second years is all that resource-intensive. And even if it were, they'd be paying tuition to cover it all the same.

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