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If I were king, I'd look into retraining biomedical grad students/postdocs to go into medicine. We've got a massive (taxpayer-funded!) glut of the latter and m
by mattkrause 6y ago
If I were king, I'd look into retraining biomedical grad students/postdocs to go into medicine. We've got a massive (taxpayer-funded!) glut of the latter and many of them have a relevant background and even skills.
Yet, only a few places currently try to convert PhDs to MDs; most places are overwhelmingly geared up for undergrads coming straight out of pre-med programs.
- vagrantJin 6y agoThe problem with this is that it's sensible. Politics does not do sensible, it does what is expedient. Consider the US preaching about democracy and consent of the governed and then funding radicals to do a coup and start a civil war to oust a democratic president they don't like in a sovereign state. Why?