Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease

Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by chongli on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:34AM (#44282832)

Board exams are fine. You can sit thousands of candidates for those. The issue is residency slots which are the main bottleneck. Why should a surgeon with 20 years of experience working in Mumbai be forced to become a resident alongside fresh-faced med school grads in the US? It’s a huge problem when it’s cheaper and safer to fly to India for surgery than to get the same surgery in the US (from a less experienced surgeon).

It’s the tyranny of the status quo. Milton Friedman was complaining about this more than 50 years ago.

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Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by giantg2 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @03:32PM (#44284459)

"Why should a surgeon with 20 years of experience working in Mumbai be forced to become a resident alongside fresh-faced med school grads in the US?"

Perhaps you could have them in some accelerated program, but i think it makes a lot of sense to require doctors to train or prove themselves in the specific country/region using the standard practices, tools, etc customary there. I wouldn't want a US doctor operating on me in India since they're likely to make assumptions and recommendations for treatment that overlook local practices, resources, etc.

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Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by sebmellen on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:43AM (#44343713)

I think this is a fundamental disagreement, not tyranny of the status quo. We have a functional medical training pipeline already that produces (arguably) the best physician population in the world. Let’s invest there.

The surgeon from Mumbai can come in and prove their worth through a surgical residency. That’s completely fair.

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