It's easy to get into law school. They are not as expensive to maintain as a teaching hospital. That's why we have so many lawyers rotting and stinking up the country. See my post above. It's all about the infrastructure. Doctors must have hospitals to treat the sick. It's more than clinical care.
Typical “guild mentality caused the problem because I’m so smart but I couldn’t get into med school.”
***My turn to call nonsense. It’s the AMA which determines how many med schools there are. They could double the number of med schools and not reduce the quality of care. The number of slots are artificially kept low so that doctors are in high demand in this country.
We hire hundreds of foreign docs every year because we cannot *afford* to educate more doctors.
***Sure we can. Those foreign docs come from places that can barely afford to dig a well for water, yet they keep open reasonably good med schools.