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Law of large numbers. Plus, getting into medical school is not sufficient. A surgeon cannot fake his track record and experience after residency and working.


Cannot fake? How about Dr Death and the doctors guild that protected him for years?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/dr-death-christopher-duntsch


> A surgeon cannot fake his track record and experience after residency and working.

Fake? No. Fudge? Yes, easily. Besides, you can be competent and still substantially worse than a gifted surgeon would have been had they been given an actual "equal" opportunity like the comment I replied to claimed to care about.




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