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Re:The Washington State Measles Outbreak by lotsofpulp on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:47AM (#19104334)
I meant a academic breakdown of how they work. Evolution, probability, herd immunity, history, etc. Doctors are in short supply and if they start acting as one on one teachers for the public, how are they going to have time to treat people.

There are plenty of researchers and PhDs who are subject matter experts on vaccines who can help educate, but I don’t think it’s possible with 1 on 1 interactions.

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Re:The Washington State Measles Outbreak by joe_the_user on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:31AM (#19112024)
"Doctors are in short supply and if they start acting as one on one teachers for the public, how are they going to have time to treat people."

Uh, there's no doubt doctors treat people "one on one." A significant part of a doctor's treatment of a person is proscribing a behavior. And human beings being what they are, any wanting to elicit a behavior needs to spend some time educating a person on why they should behave this way.

I'd agree that the standard for how doctors should operate has become something like what you describe - a frenetic technician rather than an educator, counselor and authority along with the technician part. I'd say that's degraded the quality of American health care, along with all the other it's been degraded.

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