Because the learning process for medicine is completely different. 8-year olds armed with QBasic can make a computer do cool things. No 8-year old can study or

Because the learning process for medicine is completely different. 8-year olds armed with QBasic can make a computer do cool things. No 8-year old can study or even try out doing anything interesting in medicine by any meaningful approximation. Hell, even chemistry sets are pretty much off-limits.