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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Because, in my view it takes a lot more knowledge to become a doctor. A lot more skill and a lot more smarts. The law is pretty much static, but medical knowledge is ever fluid and information needed, increasing rapidly. Most doctors are in the top one percent of the population in inate intelligence. They can't be mass produced.
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The law is not static at all, graciegirl. Different kinds of skills and intelligence are needed between a career in the law and one in medicine. I do think it is a lot harder to get into medical school than law school, however, and I will bet there are a lot more law schools than medical schools in the US.
https://www.aamc.org/about/medicalschools/ ABA-Approved Law Schools | Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
203 to 141 as far as the ratio of accredited law schools to medical schools.
A competent malpractice lawyer would probably need to know quite a bit about the current state of medicine in whatever area she practices, for instance. Just as a psychiatrist say would need to keep abreast of changes in that field so would any malpractice lawyer covering changes in psychiatry. I remember quite a number of volumes at the University of Minnesota Law Library that were on malpractice. These would get updates quite often.