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Re:Rookie Doctors Will Soon Be Allowed to Work Up to 28 Hour... by surgeryres on Saturday March 11, 2017 @07:06PM (#13848048)
Limiting under grad education - sure, that is reasonable, that is how non-US countries do it. You get fast tracked to medical school after high school. But you still need some amount of undergrad education before medical school.

But no multi-year residencies? You are misinformed. It takes years to learn how to take care of the sick and dying. We don't just punish ourselves with lengthy training programs for fun.

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Re:Rookie Doctors Will Soon Be Allowed to Work Up to 28 Hour... by Retric on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:24PM (#13848345)
It takes years for the sleep deprived to do so. That does not mean it must take years. As you know actual doctors continue to look things up, so you don't need them to memorize every edge case, just know when something could be an edge case.
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Re:Rookie Doctors Will Soon Be Allowed to Work Up to 28 Hour... by surgeryres on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:46PM (#13848634)
Yea, well. I just don't think we can continue this argument.
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