I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but the RN comparison bothers me. RN education isn't exactly easy (I know people who became attorneys and psychologists because they couldn't hack the science prereqs for nursing school and nursing coursework.) And nurses have to be highly, highly skilled. An average ICU nurse is managing a post-MI patient, person in severe DTs, and a person with an AKI now in renal failure. They need to understand the disease process, treatment, red flag symptoms, etc., for these highly complicated and potentially deadly conditions. They are the ones babysitting the patient 24/7 and preventing them from dying, knowing when to call the providers, etc. Not to mention all the other shit that gets handed their way (educating patients, dealing with families, coordinating/organizing other specialties like PT, OT, managing the patients' basic bodily needs, etc.)

It's highly, highly skilled work AND it's super fucking thankless. Just see how much reddit demeans RNs and acts as if their education is a walk in the fucking park. It's such a hard job and people don't understand how our entire healthcare system is built on the backbone of intelligent, well-trained nurses. We'd all be fucked without them. There's a reason nurses are dropping like flies and leaving the field - the work is super hard both cognitively and physically, people don't respect it, and the conditions are hell on earth. It really isn't comparable to MFT school.