Re:Medical school can be brutal, and it’s making many of us ...
by viraptor on Monday October 10, 2016 @07:53PM
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> the sole doctor for miles in a rural area to attend to a mass casualty event.
Seems like the issue is not a lot of doctors in the area. While we can't test this easily, wouldn't reducing the forced marches give more people incentive to join the profession? Then you have more doctors, better coverage and people scheduled to be on call for this.
Essentially, where's the balance between few superheroes who survived and a large number of doctors who are just pretty good.
> but the rigor works and makes for good doctors.
You're commenting on an article which talks about medical students being suicidal. And I know of 2 local doctors actually going through with that. That's not my definition of "good".
Seems like the issue is not a lot of doctors in the area. While we can't test this easily, wouldn't reducing the forced marches give more people incentive to join the profession? Then you have more doctors, better coverage and people scheduled to be on call for this.
Essentially, where's the balance between few superheroes who survived and a large number of doctors who are just pretty good.
> but the rigor works and makes for good doctors.
You're commenting on an article which talks about medical students being suicidal. And I know of 2 local doctors actually going through with that. That's not my definition of "good".