[freedomcrusader]

Medicine isn't religion, religion isn't medicine.

I'd choose my doctor on how well they diagnose and treat disease, regardless of their personal beliefs. Evolution isn't relevant to how well they diagnose or treat patients, so what a doctor believes about evolution is irrelevant to how well he will diagnose and treat me.

If you choose a doctor on the basis of their acceptance of a theory irrelvant to how well they practice medicine, that's your choice, but it's hardly logical.

Your analogy to priesthood is flawed. There's no science behind religion. And faith in evolution doesn't a better doctor make.

[NativeNewYorker]

Evolution isn't relevant to how well they diagnose or treat patients

It might bear on their grasp of biology. As I just said above, an empirical study of medical personnel, their "take" on evolution, and competence measures, would be interesting.