<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zionic</author><text>The medical cartel will never allow that. They have a complete stranglehold on both licensing and education.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don&amp;#x27;t need to be as overworked.</text></item><item><author>xzel</author><text>Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD&amp;#x2F;PhD program by my lab&amp;#x27;s PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.&lt;p&gt;Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sodosopa</author><text>Is that from lowering educational requirements or from lowering standards?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don&amp;#x27;t need to be as overworked.</text></item><item><author>xzel</author><text>Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD&amp;#x2F;PhD program by my lab&amp;#x27;s PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.&lt;p&gt;Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story>