re: Why do people think that American doctors are better than other countries?

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U.S. attracts the best and brightest


The greediest. The medical field DOES NOT attract the most intelligent nor the most humble. To get into Med school you have to jump through hoops, volunteer, join the Peace Corp, etc.

The most intelligent people do not elect to jump through hoops and instead would enter math, physics, computer science, engineering.....the one's not intelligent enough choose another science choose Law instead.

Medical draws ONLY those who seek status and money. No amount of hoops can keep the scum from lying and cheating to get that Dr. by their name and the "respect" it draws from low brow people because "damn I heard he makes 300k/year"

The desire for money and status is why we have a pain killer epidemic with people hooked on all sorts of unneeded drugs that they are convinced by the medical community that they need.

When was the last time you saw a surgeon on Jeopardy...wonder why?

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Jesus, this is a whole ton of stupid all packaged into one post.

For starters, at the most elite schools, the greediest and most power hungry tend to congregate into three groups:

- Investment bankers/management consultants cum MBAs
- JDs
- Entrepreneurs arrogant enough to think they can make a billion by 30

Doctors tend to have a limited cap on lifetime income, so status and money tend to not play much of a role, especially these days in the post-PPACA world.