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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really long ago especially when you consider how long it takes to produce a fully finished doctor (medical school, internship, residency & fellowship then a first job). You are conveniently ignoring a third possibility which is that you are mistaken.[/quote]
Or you are. There are many recent articles and studies on this. You are just pointing to your anecdotal experience from over a decade ago. Times have changed and they have changed most drastically in the past five years. [/quote]

Perhaps the issue is that you sound like you are insisting that the majority of student are from SES that are like DCUM wealthy—the 1%. This is simply not true. What is true, is that the majority come from the top 2/5 SES in this country; but the cutoff for the second quintile is just not that high compared to the numbers of the 1%. Here is the data from the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), for the ten years through 2017. The data show that about 75% of medical students came from the top 20% of SES. But the cutoff for the second quintile of SES in 2017 was a HHI of only $74,870 a year. That’s not exactly wealthy:

https://www.aamc.org/media/9596/download

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