And also to become a Consultant you will be expected to work the most unsocial, anti work life balance schedule ever devised.

Frankly software engineer is fluffy happy world of love and inclusion compared to medicine; a more masochistic profession you will not find.

My experience is second hand through my wife's participation in medicine as a hospital doctor.

N.B. General Practitioners seem to have a far more acceptable work life balance.

How do you justify the 70% number? Do a Google site search of healthgrades.com and you'll find doctors practicing in America who graduated from American University of The Caribbean, which is among the lowest regarded of medical schools American doctors attend. I don't think admission into this university is difficult.

I don't think it's a given that someone with excellent grades in high school/college could become a good doctor, even with training. The same goes for a programmer.

You know what they call the guy that graduates last in his med school class? Doctor.

> You know what they call the guy that graduates last in his med school class?

A doctor who passed with at least 75%, so far as my local [third world] standards go.

Last time I checked you need much more engineers than doctors.

I think his point was that the doctors vs engineers analogy was flawed BECAUSE we have more engineers than doctors.