“....Graduates from major medical schools were admitted to med schools without a SCIENCE degree of any kind ...”
To have any chance at all of being admitted they would to have all the biological & chemical science courses probably even math like calculus. Everyone I know had undergraduate degrees in biology, chemistry and chemical engineering often dual degrees in those fields.
Today everyone has those type of degrees, top-of-the-line grades, great MCAT scores. To get in you have to have more - show you really want to be a MD. Meaning some sort of extracurricular activity oriented toward medicine.
I am sure the one out of 10,000 exception occurs.
The biggest reason MDs aren’t curious is because risk taking (or even questioning the “routine”!) in one’s practice even for the benefit of the patient is a path to be sued and lose your license. You can thank the predatory lawyers for that!
True that on the law dogs— fear rules, that the the excessive premiums for insurance. The reason why many OB-GYNs quit or “went naked” ie no insurance and stating so in their offices.
You are correct on what used to be required— pure sciences, not psychology degrees, and high MCAT and provable logic questions in rafts of interviews. In the last 15 years or so this has dramatically changed, as you say— one must have “something more” (from wide experience, money doesn’t talk it swears— and obamaumao-like got a lot of real screwups in ).
Point being made was that there are many brilliant outside the box thinkers who were brave enough to get their learned diagnostic skills out through the purposeful FOG of media, and the medical-industrial complex which suppressed dialogue professionally and publicly.
Run of the mill— doc in the box millenials, are not curious- beyond their phones. A tragedy inheritors of truly brilliant medical teachers now gone on. Case in point is Dr. Malone (who has been paid tons in royalties for the mRNA related patents, yet has had the ethics and temerity to point out how wrong and improper the use of mRNA was. This was not going to stop the likes of Bill Gates, and their chi-com intermediaries which Fauci funded. He, at a minimum should be up on charges- corruption is only part of what he did).