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1. estearum · 1790162533 · focus · HN ↗

   (speaking from US): The reality is we need more doctors. A lot more.

   There's no solution other than training a lot, lot, lot, lot more doctors.

   Their salaries need to be lower, training needs to be cheaper and faster, and we need a lot more of them.

   1. khalic · 1790162970 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm not sure about the salaries. Vocation-motivated people are already doing it. The rest needs a good reason to put their entire life, quite literally, into one single purpose. It's one of those professions that requires a complete dedication of free time, youth, health, mind, etc.

      1. pajamasam · 1790163977 · focus · HN ↗

         If there are more doctors, it would require less of each one's time though.

         1. khalic · 1790164495 · focus · HN ↗

            Yes it would, but the sacrifices start at the university already, that part is incompressible I'm afraid

            1. groestl · 1790164989 · focus · HN ↗

               And there's certain constraints related to patient's safety which have an impact (i.e. less handovers, longer shifts)

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