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The darker side of being a doctor

282 points · 342 comments · Danhale93

  1. estearum · · 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 · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
        If there are more doctors, it would require less of each one's time though.
        1. khalic · · focus · HN ↗
          Yes it would, but the sacrifices start at the university already, that part is incompressible I'm afraid
          1. killerstorm · · focus · HN ↗
            Education system was set up in XIX century. It's not clear how much of it is necessary in XXI century.

            Back in the day religious books were copied by scribes educated in a monastic tradition. Now printers can print them in a completely godless manner but the result isn't any worse.

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