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Yeah, I read this in the Times over the weekend, too. It's one thing for art or philosophy students to want an easier class. This is doctors. I don't want so
by reaperducer 4y ago
Yeah, I read this in the Times over the weekend, too.
It's one thing for art or philosophy students to want an easier class. This is doctors. I don't want someone doing surgery on me who couldn't handle the workload and took the easy way out.
Everything described in the article sounded just like my experience at two different colleges, and I wasn't in for something as important as medicine.
If you can't handle the work, then maybe it's time to look at yourself and think that maybe you shouldn't be a doctor. There are plenty of other professions out there.
- voisin 4y agoI don’t think anyone suggests that med school should be easy, but the difficulty should be in the core stuff that the end practitioner will need day to day, not something tangential to the practice.
- reaperducer 4y agoI'm not a doctor, so I can't say what is tangential and what is not. But I don't want my doctor to only understand the core basics of medicine. I want her to understand how to diagnose any crazy thing I might show up in her office afflicted with.
- voisin 4y agoYou realize these decisions don’t come without cost, right? Your desire to ensure every doctor is an expert on organic chemistry means there are fewer doctors and those that make it through the gauntlet are paid more due to this scarcity despite the fact that they may be a general practitioner that almost never need organic chemistry skills in their practice. Everything is a trade off. If organic chemistry keeps your family doctor from diagnosing you with confidence, they can pass you to a specialist whose practice needs organic chemistry more regularly.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoI'm pretty sure that passing undergraduate organic chemistry doesn't make you an "expert on organic chemistry".
- voisin 4y agoMy statement is true even if you water down the word "expert" to whatever standard you wish to insert.
- viraptor 4y ago> I don't want someone doing surgery on me who couldn't handle the workload So this is a problematic one. Currently the workload in a few areas of medicine is not sustainable. Those who pass also can't handle it. There's a threshold where instead of people toughing it out, we'll need to adjust the system so it's not necessary that much.