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It’s pretty obvious why the doctor’s guild would prevent more medical school spots from being available.

> It’s pretty obvious why ...

That's never evidence and a well-labeled gateway to our own fallacy. There's a reason serious examination of an issue requires factual evidence in any field, from medicine to law to science, etc.

IME, in areas I lack expertise, the truth is usually intuitive but an unexpected intuition. The only solution, the only source of truth, is evidence.

Do I need to say this on HN? Sadly, it seems like it.

This is how every guild in history has operated. Every profession when it controls the supply of its own members seeks to limit it. The AMA can only furnish the weakest of excuses for this practice. They say it has to do with federal funding for residency programs. But there's no reason for residency programs to need federal funding at all. They generate more value for hospitals than they cost to run.

There's a reason evidence, not fact-free theories, is required.

But now I see the name of your throwaway account. It's sad that you can't talk to other people respectfully.

:'(

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