[happygrl]

We have a doctor shortage in this country, in part because half of med students are female, who do not wish to work the hours that their male colleagues do.

In addition, younger doctors of both sexes want a life and will not work 60+ hours per week.

Nurse practioners and Physician Assistants could make up the slack, but there are shortages of medical professors to teach them.

So we import doctors with which we can hardly communicate.

The answer: we need to convert some of our public universities to medical training centers, and reduce the number of classrooms for student taking ethnic and gender study majors.

The public interest is not being served when taxpayers fund universities, but fail to train students in essential professions.

[nyconse]

This has little to do with female doctors and much to do with how expensive medical school is. There used to be programs to help doctors in medical school, but these have mostly gone away...like much of our focus-it’s cheaper to import doctors.