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So? Those extra four years of education for people who want to be doctors are mostly waste, an elaborate hazing ritual. Make undergraduate entry to medical school a five or six year programme, like in Europe. The increase in physician career years will swamp any plausible decline in incoming student quality, even if they just admit students straight from high school to the current US med school system.



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