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Originally Posted by JustJess
One of the simplest reasons for that is that schooling to become a doctor is both grueling and HUGELY expensive. They are several hundred thousand dollars in debt by the time they're done.
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Another bonus about the way things are done in the Nordic countries: practically free education, as far as you want to go. For those who can get into the University of Iceland's medical school, their educations are still basically free. The problem there is that they have not changed their admissions quotas since the beginning of the program, despite the population's natural increase and a demand for more doctors. So more medical students are going abroad (if they aren't accepted here) for their educations, and often end up staying there afterwards. They need to figure out how to keep those students in the country, so that they have enough doctors to keep the waiting lines down.