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Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everyone knows that doctors are overqualified for the vast majority of tasks they
by marcoperaza 7y ago
Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everyone knows that doctors are overqualified for the vast majority of tasks they are responsible for. Normally, there's good reason for this, because you want a highly-trained eye to spot unusual and atypical cases.
But when you're dealing with a pandemic, you can do without. Do you really think that your typical doctor spent all that much time in med school or residency learning how to operate a particular kind of machinery? If we have the ventilators, we'll be able to find people to operate them.
- omar_a1 7y ago> Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good No, it's because medicine has a very low fault tolerance, and requires a large body of technical knowledge to even understand what needs to happen for your patient. Having a team of incompetent clinicians perform complicated medical procedures "good" as a layperson still results in disproportionate people dying, that would have survived under a competent practitioner.
- marnett 7y ago> [...] would have survived under a competent practitioner. Bringing us back to the topic of this thread, a potential lack of competent practitioners if the pandemic worsens, and what the best solution to address this would be, such as a COVID-specific ventilator training.
- omar_a1 7y agoBecause the difference between letting someone die under inappropriately-applied ventilation versus just letting someone die is the occupation of a perfectly good ventilator. One that could be used to actually save someone. If you're in the business of killing patients, a gun would be more economical than a ventilator.
- mistermann 7y agoI believe there is a third possible outcome that you overlooked.