[friendly]

The top undergraduate students have however gone into other fields (business, law), so that now 50% of the med school classes are women, up from 5% 25 years ago. Women who (wisely in my view) simply don't work as hard, take vacations, don't do 70 hour weeks, drop out to have kids, etc.

The new docs graduating are simply not as intelligent as the graduates of 25 years ago, in my experience. It is hard to imagine how bad American graduates of these Mexican and other third world hell-hole medical schools must be.

[Mamzelle]

re: Women who (wisely in my view) simply don't work as hard, take vacations, don't do 70 hour weeks, drop out to have kids, etc.)))

Well, we all know stressed-out and overworking gal docs. BUT, in general, the increase in the number of women physicians has served to limit actual hours worked and patients seen. Women seldom go into the physically demanding specialties (ortho, neuro, gen surg), prefer the tidy office and hospital practices (radiology, internal med, opthal)-- leading to a shortage of the specialties unpreferred.

[Under the Radar]

BUMP for truth.

[gas_dr]

The new docs graduating are simply not as intelligent as the graduates of 25 years ago, in my experience

And what experience would that be that you would take such an all inclusive shot at those of us who have graduated in the last 25 years. I graduated 6 years ago and consider my diagnostic skills and medicine skills superior to my predecessors simply because we know a whale of a lot more about the science of medicine than my family members who graduated 16 years ago. For example, I am proficient at reading echocardiograms intraoperatively -- something anesthesiologists even 10 years ago had never heard of. I wish you would not perpetuate this laymen myth in medicine -- in short, you are lending credence to the anyone can do it argument, and that is not true...