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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. meken · · focus · HN ↗
      > There's no solution other than training a lot, lot, lot, lot more doctors.

      Seems like having doctors emigrate from other countries would work as well.

      1. slices · · focus · HN ↗
        anecdote alert: had a family member treated by a foreign doctor last year, and received advice from that doc that was both 1) highly dangerous, 2) bare minimum 20 years out of date.

        Inconceivable that a domestically-trained doc would have made the same mistake.

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