Huge opportunity cost to medicine. My take: if some needs to be talked into pursuing medicine, they shouldn’t pursue medicine. Of course, I might just be getting cynical in my dotage.
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Some questions that come to mind include: are there limitations (financial or otherwise) society should impose on medical care? Is there a “cost per benefit” which should not be exceeded? Who decides? How can systemic inefficiencies be identified, improved upon?
It’s complicated. Views do not reflect my employer, professional organization, the whims of spellcheck sensitivities, or perhaps even myself. Medicine is long past “first do no harm,” trying to balance business, politics, philosophy, religion, science, and other pressures.
Well, it’s been a journey. She did two semesters at Goucher, one at College of Charleston, and she’s taking the next semester off. Maybe Montana State in the fall, to study ag with an equine emphasis. Because the liberal arts clearly suck.
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