Scary reality of healthcare: Workers without proper medical training are allowed to see patients because of laws lobbied in 28 US states.

If I have two applicants for a job and one is clearly better than another why do I owe the training position to one of them

So you are proposing scrapping the H1B system entirely? Google, Facebook, etc. can hire any national without restriction? That's quite a bold suggestion, have you thought that through? Really doesn't sound like it.

Essentially 100% graduation rates. Are we that sure of our selection process that 100% of matriculating medical students would make decent doctors?

Academically without a doubt, and it's not even close. The reality is American medical school is the hardest to get into anywhere in the world. America has far fewer spots for medical school per capita than most other nations and we are the ONLY nation that has to import 8000 resident docs plus many more attending docs annually just to feed our system. So you either have to claim that Americans as a people are mentally deficient and not able to be their own doctors, or that the system is too stringent in selection standards. I will argue for the later, and the corollary of this overly strict standard is that every matriculating student is FAR in excess of the academic requirements to be an excellent doctor. The high graduation rates prove this, as do the test passing rates.

It was very common in the 60s and 70s to lose a big chunk of the class because it was felt they couldn’t be good doctors

Almost none of the doctors that completed their training in the 60's and 70's would be accepted to medical school today, let alone those that dropped out. They simply are not intelligent enough and they couldn't get the test scores. Look up their average scores, the difference is staggering.

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