chronic7382
Not everyone has the right to live in the Bay Area or NYC. These are top cities. If you're not top financially, then go live somewhere else.
> Excellent all too overlooked view IMO.
Intellectual development and logical reasoning serve as the basis for proper personal health, family nucleation, social improvement, and other axes on the human experience map.
Without being able to think, how can you improve your health, friend, family, or financial standing? This is why most of America is overweight, poor, and doesn't care for anyone other than themselves (as shown by both democratic and Republican political platforms) -- they simply don't have the intellectual capacity to care.
No, medical education does not have to be this way. It is purely gatekeeping.
It's similar to how "You need a PhD" to land top AI/ML jobs. That's gatekeeping as well, though it is slowly changing.
Not many doctors or AI researchers will openly state this gatekeeping because they benefit, at the expense of those not in their field.
Then you should know very well that the entire MD education pipeline optimizes for rote memorization and regurgitation of facts (from undergrad pre-med all the way through post-residency fellowships). Any patient with even the slightest deviation from what the physician searched on WebMD is given generic advice similar to how fortune tellers recite generic phrases. If you have a non-standard question or health problem, go to 3 doctors (or even specialists) and you'll get 3 different answers.
I work closely with clinicians at Tier 1 urban medical institutions daily, both at the in-patient and outpatient settings. Most doctors are dumb as a rock.
Note: Physicians with a MD/PhD are much better at critical thinking and make more of an effort to solve your problem.
Found the problem.