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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (18733)	8/10/2010 5:41:43 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>>> But you can't claim that that solves the problem. I understand what you're saying, but to me, "solving" a health problem means finding the best solution from the set of solutions that exists as of a given date and time. By its nature, medicine often involves intractable and incurable problems, and it really isn't reasonable to say, "The physician didn't cure the patient therefore he failed" or "therefore, he didn't solve the problem". In my mind, solving the problem means finding the best solution from the set of feasible solutions, and that's about all we can expect from a physician. The context of the original post was suggestive that physicians are an "active" component of the "solution" (whatever that happens to be) perhaps 10% of the time. That is an utterly absurd statement IMO.