In fact, diagnosis can even be tricky for an experienced doctor.
Now, she said, most of the experienced doctors have left.
Her problems would have tested the skills of the most experienced doctor, but a midwife was put in charge.
The second woman to be nominated for this position, she is an experienced medical doctor, scientist, and public health executive.
A couple of hundred is a sufficient number, but it's common for an experienced doctor to have done thousands.
That means residents work ever longer days but spend less of their time treating patients and learning skills from experienced doctors.
"Pumpkin, that's modern medicine," says an experienced doctor to a new medical intern.
The faculty is composed of experienced medical doctors and professors that integrate knowledge with practice.
More experienced doctors, he said, would have known to induce labor.
But as any experienced doctor knows, modern medicine can "cure" relatively few conditions.