Jindal did not go to medical school. Wishes do not translate into experience. Using your logic a degree in business would be more helpful.
People who have never touched a patient have no business telling those who do how to run their practice.
Excuse me, but his undergrad education IN MEDICINE (which is what pre-med is) was sufficiently good to garner him acceptance to one of the top medical schools in the country.
His credential at successfully MANAGING a medical system started at age 24, when Governor Mike Foster appointed him to be head of Louisiana's Department of Health. What you have to understand here is that Louisiana has had a combination of "socialized medicine" (the Charity Hospital System), and private medicine. As head of the state department, Jindal was DIRECTLY in charge of managing the Charity Hospital system, and regulating the private sector. Add to that his time spent as the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation under the Bush administration. NO other individual that I know of currently running for public office can match those credentials. Bill Frist might have come close, but his experience was still inferior to Jindal's.
There's no "wishful thinking" involved at all.
"Using your logic a degree in business would be more helpful. People who have never touched a patient have no business telling those who do how to run their practice."
Actually, a LOT of medical enterprises (including hospitals) are run by folks who have "never touched a patient".