And that he never had to do the grueling hours of intern training, etc.???
I had a doctor that worked for me when on Active Duty. She had done an Internal Med type internship so she had done a required year to be a GMO but it wasn’t required for the “Master’s of Public Health” she got at Johns Hopkins. You can go right from Med School to that degree, IIRC. So it IS possible to go to Med School, become and epidemiologist, and never again have to take call or “see” a patient. Which makes it attractive for people who desire that lifestyle (like “have kids”.). She’s been on active duty since and that was ‘93 IIRC. What’s that? 27 years? 0-6 retirement coming up. Pretty sweet. Of course since she is an epidemiologist and there isn’t a lot of work for an epidemiologist she has had to do a lot of deployments to recover bodies.
Re Fauci’s education. He did internship. From Wiki:
“Fauci attended Regis High School in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where he captained the school’s basketball team and graduated in 1958. He then went to the College of the Holy Cross, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in classics. Fauci then attended medical school at Cornell University Medical College where he graduated first in his class with a Doctor of Medicine in 1966. He then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, now known as New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine.”
Why else would you be an Epidemiologist?