This is absolutely one of the most hotly debated concepts in medicine today.
Do good looking people, particularly women, make good physicians?
I want to thank DC for bringing this to our attention, and I think this should be a good, academic debate.
I, for one, believe that "good looking" people are just as competent as physicians, even more so.
But when deciding this, we have to have a standard to base who is "hot" and who is "not." I propose that the medical community use a long standing GOLD STANDARD for judging the future ability of their applicants:
hotornot.com
Thats right. Using the passport photo, med schools can easily assess an applicant's potential contribution to the field of medicine. No one knows who is "hotter" than teenie boppers clicking away on the web.
All an Adcom needs do is paste the pic up on the web at hotornot, and wait to get about 1000 hits on the picture. This should be an accurate sample size. There should be two standards: one for men and one for women.
Here is to teenie boppers and websites that make America great. Here is to hotornot!
CCW