Editorial: Are Medical School Graduates in the Red Over their Heads?: Rising Cost of Education is Only Part of the Disillusionment

Abstract

In the Biblical story of Jacob’s marriages with Leah and Rachel (Genesis 29: 15-30), Jacob serves Laban for 7 years to gain the hand of his younger daughter, Rachel. On the wedding night, Jacob learns that he has instead been given the hand of Laban’s older daughter, Leah, who by tradition must marry before her younger sister; to marry Rachel, he must give Laban 7 more years of service.