For a handful of profoundly gifted kids who want to be doctors, it probably is.

My sister, by the way, is a successful MD and director of the medical residency program in her specialty at a teaching hospital. She did not make the cut for the gifted class in middle school, but she did learn how to work hard in school and enjoyed dissecting things.

She also says that you just don't get the same quality of people going into medicine now that you can't make medical residents work more than 100 hours a week.

Last edited by Beckee; 02/13/12 09:02 AM.