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You can be a software developer without any formal training and without any licensure. Not so for an MD.

It's going to attract more people who have the mentality of artists or musicians, i.e. people who do it for the love of the craft and as a creative outlet.

> You can be a software developer without ... any licensure.

Don't jinx it. We are extremely lucky in this regard, and it actually looks like a rare exception.

hopefully the MD that passes all the tests is still worth his salt even if he only chose the profession for the paycheck.

but as one of the nearby professors is famous for saying: "C students gotta go somewhere."

( and since this is HN - he didn't mean the programming language :D )

idk, a lot of American doctors I've met seemed to be in it because they like school and stability. Though perhaps a similar scary.

There are plenty of easier ways to make money than becoming a doctor.

They tend to be higher risk though. If you've got the capacity for memorizing all the stuff you need to become a doctor, there's not much risk involved in attaining your doctor salary.