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I think you just discovered that when you apply the same line of reasoning to everything everywhere, you get nonsensical results. That's usually why it is best
by jpdoctor 13y ago
I think you just discovered that when you apply the same line of reasoning to everything everywhere, you get nonsensical results.
That's usually why it is best to apply reasoning sensibly. For instance: Your programming example is missing the traditional loans from the cost-of-medical school. It is also missing the middle-man problem of insurance billing. It is also missing the incestuous role that pharmaceutical companies play in "helping" doctors to learn how to diagnose little-understood diseases such as UC.
It is better to apply the line of reasoning I gave above to situations where they apply.
- arn 13y agoAnd I think your perspective says more about your personal motivations in your daily life than anything else. There are always going to be some people motivated by money (like perhaps yourself), some by helping others, some by some other measure of personal satisfaction. To say all physicians work on the incentive of personal money is a paranoid view which, in my experience, is grossly simplistic. There are good doctors, and there are bad doctors. It's equally (in)valid to say that everything anyone does in any profession is entirely motivated by financial gain.
- dandelany 13y agoAs seems to be usual on HN these days, you're vastly overreacting. Nowhere did he "say that everything anyone does in any profession is entirely motivated by financial gain". He said "you need to evaluate your doctors' incentives". The fact that someone has an incentive to do X does not mean it's their primary motivation, or even that they're taking it into account. I have a dopamine incentive to eat bacon, but it's not motivating any of my actions today. You're not helping anyone by being unreasonable or putting words in others' mouths.