Britt Peterson flags an article from the New York Times on how medical students are clamouring to become dermatologists and plastic surgeons, lured by higher salaries, better hours and a desire to help people look their best (the article appears in the paper's Fashion section).
This trend isn't exactly new, though. The author, Natasha Singer, identified the attraction of the beauty business in a very similar article in the Times two years ago.
Also, curiously absent from today's article is any discussion of medical malpractice. While there's debate about the extent to which malpractice lawsuits are leading medical students to choose fields like dermatology over higher-risk specialties like neurosurgery and obstetrics/gynaecology, it's odd that Singer wouldn't even bring it up.
She did the first time around.
