3QDM - nice spiel about standards! Are you really saying that you personally would need a month's course to learn how to do an 'aviation' medical?
nonradio,
Well, yes actually. There's a lot of applied physiology involved and you need to understand the rationale behind the licencing standards and how the whole system works. Like everything in life, it looks simple from the outside when all is going swimmingly. When stuff doesn't go swimmingly or simply it needs experience, expertise and training to carry you through. Like flying itself, in fact.
A good bluffer with reasonable common sense could do 80% of my job as a GP, but the other 20% they couldn't and that's what I get paid for. Same with AMEs.
QDM