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"Medicine used to be a meaningful pursuit. Now it has become a tiresome industry. The joy, purpose and meaning of medicine has been codified, sterilised, protoc
by praptak 3y ago
"Medicine used to be a meaningful pursuit. Now it has become a tiresome industry. The joy, purpose and meaning of medicine has been codified, sterilised, protocolised, industrialised and regimented. Doctors are caught in a web of business, no longer a noble vocation. The altruism of young doctors have been replaced by the shackles of efficiency, productivity and key performance indicators."
That's textbook Marxist alienation of work. It was not supposed to happen to middle class workers though.
- lurking15 3y agoOddly enough medicine has never been more regulated and financed by government so hard to say this is some sort of marxist dynamic, more like the consequences of centralization that happened after (because of) WWII. You see this in the US/UK/Canada regardless of whether they're "socialized" it's a mess everywhere.
- gverrilla 3y ago> It was not supposed to happen to middle class workers though. Don't think Marx wrote or said that. Any source?
- praptak 3y agoI meant the "Marxism was about 19th century factory workers, I'm middle class so it doesn't apply to me" line of thinking.