Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure

Re:Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure by vkou on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:08PM (#41131852)

If we're going to talk about inefficient use of resources, maybe we could start with the education requirements. In the US and Canada, doctors spend years getting useless degrees before they are allowed into medical school.

In Europe, they somehow get through medical school without them.

(Not that any of this would matter because the incentives of the residency system are perfectly set up to make it impossible to train any more doctors.)

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Re:Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure by Scoundreller on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:13PM (#41131911)

100%. The US/Can approach also limits/compresses the potential career length. Make it ~6 years and out, straight from high school (if you so please). It kinda works like this already in Quebec: you can enter medical school straight out of CEGEP.

It's also a meritocratic matter: you have to take a lot of risk to make a go for medical school, and the best candidates may not be able to afford the risk of failing to achieve their med school goal and ending up with a degree with ??? value, so the best may not take that path.

Or worse, taking an easier degree program (to beef up their grades and have time for other application-enhancing activities) and not getting themselves educated to their full potential.

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Re:Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure by whimsicalism on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:13PM (#41131916)

Hm, guess who lobbies for those education requirements?

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