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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: baggo who wrote (34997)	11/1/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

brice, i agree. as for wanting the best possible financial life, i can't argue with that. i would make the same decision. but, there are competing interests and those that pay you for services rendered feel their job is to minimize costs. it is merely the flip side of the same coin. as for lowering standards, i didn't say that, did i? ;-) you know why i didn't? i don't think it should be done. however, there are very capable people who can't enter the medical field. why? what would appear to me, and correct me if i'm wrong (but do provide facts to prove it ;-), is that there are arbitrary lines drawn that control the number of students entering med school and not the quality of the applicants. why do i say this? admissions to medical school are based on the number of students, not quality of students. sure, there are most likely minimum guidelines that address quality. if so, why not let everyone into med school that pass the minimum guidelines? the answer is obvious. hey, i'm an engineer by training and we do the same thing. i'm just up front about it... ;-) i do not want to lower the quality of care. nor do i want one doctor that is an expert in each field taking care of the entire world. once you add the second best doctor in the world you have effectively reduced the quality of care, right? that argument, in and of itself, is the quick response that i believe doesn't do the complexity of this problem justice. would you agree to let 100k physicians into medical school today (your specialty!) if it was proven that they were competent in the field? why does a 3.7 get a student into med school one year and not the next, all else being as equal as possible? surely, not quality of care issues... it is purely supply issues. in reality, it is a tradeoff. the life of a doctor is not easy. compensation should match. hey, i'd even say some doctors are under compensated. even so, i do not put myself up into a position where i can judge how much you are worth. i don't know. it is complex.