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kleinbl00  ·  5055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Life in the Quiet Zone
My wife just put cortisone on a rash and is busy arguing with Lab Corps about lost samples. Her dad has a Ph. D in organic chemistry. She worked for the health insurance industry for 5 years as a database architect. My mother has a Ph.D in microbiology. We kinda get the whole "science" thing.

The business partner she just left, however, didn't believe in germ theory. Granted, she was a midwife and acupuncturist, not a naturopathic doctor.

But it takes all kinds.

My personal philosophy is that the US does things exactly wrong. The corner doctor should be the guy who tells you what you can do to fix your problems cheaply. He ought to know your health history pretty well. You ought to be on a first-name basis with him, and he ought to be well-paid by the government to keep all small health maladies small and to refer more vexing maladies to specialists. If my wife could have gotten an MD in "old country doctor" she would have.

I dated a psychoanalyst's daughter for 4 years. He worked in public health. And every day of a 2-week rotation, he'd go to a new clinic, spend 7 minutes meeting with patients, and then 4 minutes consulting with the nurses there to find out what medication the nurses thought he should put those patients on.

That's a clinic a day, 40 patients a day, every day for two weeks.

Rinse, repeat.

Shit ain't right.





thenewgreen  ·  5055 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Amen. I agree, it's definitely an inefficient mess. The process of medical education is severly flawed too. -In my opinion it's actually way too comprehensive and is backward in it's progression. Why would you make the clinical aspect the last part of the education process? Unfortunately, a lot of "book smart" people end up in medicine only to later find out they have zero aptitude for the actual practice of medicine. -Makes no sense.