> surgeons... are doing work that is extremely challenging and realistically only a tiny amount of people are able to do

As a medical student, I'd like to dispel this myth. The surgeons tell us all the time that they could teach a monkey to do surgery. What matters is putting in the 10,000 hours if takes to become proficient at surgery, and not everyone has the time/resources/opportunity to get that training. However, I believe that almosy anyone taken from the streets and given 10,000 hours of training could become a world-class surgeon