In this ATL, about two-thirds of U.S. doctors have worked as nurses. Of course, they have. How else would you learn medical practice? Just like most auto sales managers have worked as sales people.
Medicine as a career has very much become multi-path. Some young people who want an early start still go to straight to medical school. But that's a little outside the norm and constituted just 29% of newly minted doctors in the year 2015.
Law's a tougher nut, because it is literally hard-wired in! But let's say the counter-culture successfully de-professionalizes this field as well.
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