Comment The world needs less physicians? (Score 4, Interesting) 319
I am a physician in a rural area. The hospital I'm at can't hire enough physicians, of pretty much every specialty. And it's located less than 100 miles from New York City. I can't imagine how bad it's like in the middle of nowhere.
As for how much I need Organic Chemistry in a normal year? Roughly zero percent. For the life of me I can't remember a single thing I learned in the class. I'll go so far as to say it's the most useless class to me as a practicing physician.
Yes, it was used to weed out people from medical school. But the fact is the U.S. needs *more* medical schools, not less. It's the choke point in the system. You get more medical schools, you'll get more physicians.