Via the [1] Boston Herald:

A growing number of students, especially women, are interested in becoming doctors, reversing a seven-year downward trend, according to a review of medical school applications in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Nationally, 35,000 students submitted applications for the class that started in 2003, a 3.5 percent increase over the previous year, according to the review by the American Medical Association. The increase was the first since 1996 and driven largely by women, who accounted for 96 percent of the gain.

This is good, because we are going to need more doctors, especially in EM if patients like the one who just found my site with [2] this search come into the ED for their "medical emergencies"….