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I 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
by voisin 4y ago
I 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.