22 Apr
2011
22 Apr
'11
5:23 p.m.
I suppose that's why we get them from Nigeria,
where the government
pays the entire cost of training. The US could do worse to do the
same. I'm not convinced that the AMA has my best interests at heart.
I'm not convinced of that either, and I'm a physician!
Why not train a surplus of qualified people? When the
lead surgeon
on a long procedure is getting woozy, why not pass the job off onto
someone equally qualified rather than trying to tough it out?
Surgery is probably a bad example, because who do you blame when it goes
wrong (i.e., provably human error, not our typical litigious sue-the-pants-off
for any complication "gone wrong")?
But for non-surgical fields, I still point to continuity of care as the
gold standard. Perhaps this is my primary care bias, but continuity means
a lot, even in a hospital setting where it is significantly less expected.
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