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Re:The darker side of being a doctor by hibikir on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:23AM (#49815047)
Other countries have double, even triple the number of physicians per capita. They also pay them a lot less. Are they all less competent? Are US filtering requirements actually all that predictive of future performance? Can we, say, see that MCAT scores really line up well with clinical performance? Because it's easy to be selective, but not so easy for the selectivity to be predictive of actual quality, especially when you are being selective before training starts.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor by victorbjorklund on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:03AM (#49815454)
But those countries also pay less in a lot of other fields as well. Developers make less in those countries than they make in the US.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor by folkrav on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:14AM (#49816529)
I would be surprised if wages in most of those countries were not lower overall, not just for doctors.