Re:School is all about signaling, not skill-building
by jjoonathan on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:53AM
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Except that it doesn't, because other countries see similar performance metrics with less overall training.
Nobody in charge is doing the "extra training increases costs by X which decreases availability by X which causes X damage vs lack of training causes X' damage" calculation -- everybody just argues for more training every time there's a problem, with the inevitable result of our stupendously expensive outlier of a medical system with middling measured performance and poor, ever-worsening accessibility.
What takes 8 years of medical school is knowing when not to tell the patient that. When telling the patient to go home and rest could result in severe illness or death.