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I've too notcied that people think they can make a lot of money doing other things, but that they tend to simplify things. You can make a lot of money doing something else, but you need a nack for that something. So I agree with you to a great extent.
I will add that while the average salaries for a lot of jobs are lower than physicians, anyone can do most of those jobs. What I mean is that anyone on these forms could get an MBA or a JD (and try to pass the bar ). No just anyone with an MBA or JD could get an MD or a DO. So, yeah they have to get into top programs. If law schools and business schools were more scrupulous we wouldn't have a surplus of these parasites. We'd only have the useful ones (sort of like medicinal leeches ).
I dunno about this statement. People seem to oversimplify the facts of other careers and have the misguided view that a doctor must be smart in medicine, so they must be smart at everything else. Looking at most MCAT takers (both on this forum and nationally), most pre-meds seem to struggle with verbal, a core component of scoring well on the LSAT and in law school. Can anyone on this forum get a 120 on the LSAT and go to Devry University College of Law? Of course. But can anyone on this forum get into a top 14 law school and perform well there (a near prerequisite to becoming a successful lawyer nowadays)? Maybe, but I doubt it. I think both MBAs and JDs suffer from a surplus of less-than-stellar schools pumping out imbeciles and devaluing their degrees. But to lump those people in with the strong business/law programs and their graduates and devalue the whole profession saying ANY pre-med could do it is a fallacy.
Not only that, but I'd say medicine and law/business require much different "intangible" skillsets. While present in some facets of academic medicine, the "climb to the top of the corporate ladder" is one of the main challenges that differentiates between a mediocre lawyer and a successful one (at least monetarily), something you will not find differentiating most physicians.