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Displacing a more deserving student
With the incredibly high number of qualified and deserving applicants to medical school and the relatively small number of available seats at medical schools, couldn't Karolinska Institute find a more deserving student? There are many students who don't come from "privileged" backgrounds and deserve a break in life but never get it! A physician's tools for healing can just as easily be used for sinister purposes and giving a convicted murderer these same tools not only defies logic, but also gives me pause to rethink the wisdom of the Nobel Prize selection process itself. I wonder how thoroughly they investigate the backgrounds of their laureate candidates.