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In a world where i know nurses often perform doctors dutys and jobs, while new doctors stumble around clueless.

Knowledge on adjunct fields and skills can accumulate in a person over time, thus allowing them to perform similar feets.

Like, a bright pupil might learn from a master, if it is not intended. It has happend- since medieval times- apprenticeships, although a attack on caste-think can happen today. Yes, they did not jump through the money hoops, that are suppossed to keep them away- but some of them studied what happens around them. Those servant peoples.. they might not be automatons.




Nurses are totally random dudes from the street.


And doctors are no longer, by virtue of having spend a long time in a building with lots of drinking buddys https://www.aamc.org/download/102346/data/aibvol7no2.pdf

If it had a drop-out quota similar to comp sci or math, i might actually consider your elitism a valid opinion. Post all the meritocracy nonsense you need to post, but deep down you know, if you had the money and a mediocre kid- you would help him through and put additional money hoops up behind him to jump through.

The irony, that all the others doing the same thing, have you lay on a metal table, beeing cut open by maybee not the best person for the job, it never reaches escape velocity.




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