Medin2017 you must slow your roll. I think the point is that people go into medicine and any health care profession for many reasons, including stupid reasons such as parental pressures, a self-indulging image of prestige, ect. There are obviously the myriad of others that exist that people choose as well. As far as saying the "smartest" go into medicine, it depends how one looks at "smarts" and what they judge is a smart decision and is not. For example, someone who chooses medicine due strictly to parental pressures, even if they did well in school to get them there, is not very "smart" in my book. They simply allow their parents to run their life, which to me is not a smart life decision, one I especially would fair to judge more critically then ones ability to score well on a cardiology exam. On another note, many people in dentistry and the associated specialties are pretty "smart" academically and could have very well gone into medicine but decided (as I also did at one time) that this is just a horrible decision based off a million other reasons. Now that Ive done both med and dental school, Im so glad Im in OMFS. There is no doubt I could have gone to med school before dental school, and many of my dental classmates Im sure could have done the same. Having done both med and dental school, Ive met pretty equally leveled academically talented individuals from both a qualitative and quantitative academic and clinical standpoint. The illusion that medicine harbors the "smartest" individuals within the health profession field is a sad yet realistic view of the world we live in. Because god forbid you or anyone comes into the hospital with a panfacial fracture and my inferior dentist brain and hands are the only help there to make you all pretty again.