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It seems like you've outlined a situation that could well be true. The US indeed has a training process that only generates useful competence with a full 8-12 y
by joe_the_user 7y ago
It seems like you've outlined a situation that could well be true. The US indeed has a training process that only generates useful competence with a full 8-12 year apprenticeship of hazing and theory.
Of course, it flies in the face of a common sense view that someone careful, able to follow orders, just hold things or press button etc would provide some use in a world where the doctors are fundamentally limited.
It seems like a world where the medical industry has piled goldstandard-or-nothing upon goldstandard-or-nothing approaches, to the point yeah, doctors really don't know how to produce useful people without those fricken' eight years or twelve years. Well friend, you should start thinking "outside the box" about how to make other people useful or many, many people will dies.
FYI: The US produces field medic with 16 week training period after basic training. That might who you want attending to you but things are going to be resembling a war zone really soon.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoImagine thinking that the role of a medical professional in the ICU is to just sit around and “press buttons”.
- joe_the_user 7y agoIn a huge medical emergency, when people essentially desperately pleading for a ramp-up of the effectiveness of medical personnel, it's kind of mind-boggling that the only answer you're giving is sneering at how little the layman knows (and yeah, that seems like a standard answer doctor in the US are going give). And, yeah, maybe I know little of what exactly ICU processes are but it seems indeed implausible that there are no intermediate levels of skills that are the slightest bit helpful, just about physical task can aided by a "third hand" etc.
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- mistermann 7y agoImagine thinking that claim was actually contained within that comment.
- cycrutchfield 7y ago> Of course, it flies in the face of a common sense view that someone careful, able to follow orders, just hold things or press button etc would provide some use in a world where the doctors are fundamentally limited.
- mistermann 7y agoThat sentence wasn't referring to a trained medical professional, or asserting that pushing buttons is all that a medical professional does.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoCool.