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[quote=Anonymous][quote]1. The bar for entry is different for doctors and teachers. I'm an advocate for paying teachers more but not paying the entire existing crop of teachers more. Teaching attracts people with the lowest SAT and IQ scores, draws from lower tiered universities, and an education major is on par with basket weaving in terms of level of difficulty. This doesn't mean that there are not fantastic teachers despite all this but it does mean that the current working pool is lower educated, skilled and has less aptitude.

2. Many people have choice in selecting and returning to a doctor than selecting and returning to a school. Every parent with kids in public school knows that their kids will have good teachers and terrible teachers. Its REALLY hard to get through those years when an idiot is running the class. Schools do nothing despite having full knowledge that an idiot is running this class. This frustrates other teachers and parents.[/quote]

I'm the MD poster. First, you are part of the problem. Teaching is really difficult and requires skills that aren't assessed by things like IQ (and I say this as someone who's fairly IQ smart but had to work really hard to develop EQ to be successful as a physician. Teaching helped me in ways many of my colleagues completely lack. So when you say teaching is an easy major, I want to point out the subjectivity in an assessment of intelligence and "hard." Being a good teacher is hard in ways that many, many people do not comprehend.

Second, you don't have a choice. Your insurers dictate who is in network, hospitals give privileges, and in the ER you get who you get. There's some wiggle room, but just getting into a primary care or pediatrics practice is difficult.  So, there are plenty of terrible doctors practicing shitty medicine day in and day out. And people take it because they think the doctor knows best and there's no way they could ever be one. There isn't the type of accountability discussions you see with teachers beyond the bare bones public health accountability metrics incorporated into the affordable care act.

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