Basically, this is what college should be teaching you - how to research. What good does are useless facts? I don't want to walk around cluttered with a dictionary - I want to know where to look in that dictionary. Obviously in the sciences there are facts that you should know, but even with math, its more about how to derive the formula, than actually memorizing it. I mean, their called "Research Papers" right?
Totally agree. I remember the phrase “learning how to think” being thrown around.
I also remember not being explicitly taught that.
It sort of seems like trying to find enlightenment by chopping wood and carrying water at a monastery.
If critical thinking is something that spontaneously emerges in a learning environment, maybe we shouldn’t sell it as a benefit. “Some students experience deep insight into the nature of the mind. Results not typical.”
If I sell garden gnomes wearing knitted hats, but I only make three a year and sell to only people who drive yellow cars, I doubt I could earn a decent living off this
IDK if needs to be reasoned or not. I'm imagining someone making these comments to the author's face after having been read the article. The 'callous' part comes from disregarding everything in the article to go on some great tangent about the AMA and artificial scarcity of doctors.
What's more, it seems that this article has triggered a reflexive anti-union stance, when it's more a hallmark of a place where capitalism does not work well. Why doesn't that hospital have more doctors? Surely, they could have found someone additional if they wanted. The hospital did not have to schedule every surgery as if they all required the average procedure time. The hospital could invest in better IT infrastructure and have software that was not a drag to use. Surely the hospital could have someone help the doctor not make 70+ calls over the course of a shift in addition to everything else they do. This blog post is not about a general scarcity of doctors; there's lots that could be done by the hospital investing in its staff and outcomes without hiring a single additional doctor.
Being a business means they have to optimize for profit (to at least some non trivial degree), or die.
Many hospitals are run by non profit organizations to help reduce this problem. However even they cannot run at a loss overall for long. Bankruptcy doesn’t help anyone actually provide services, after all.
Gov’t has different incentives - but then care is strongly controlled and limited by public policy, for better or worse.
And an organization that is able to optimize to produce more value than they consume (aka is more profitable) can take more risks, expand better, have more capital to invest in training, equipment, etc, be more competitive in who they hire, and have better and more comfortable facilities if they want.
And being a Dr. can be really miserable sometimes, and the training is also really hard and miserable.
Some (surgeons, esp. plastic surgery) optimize for maximum $$ for misery, usually. Others (pediatrics) optimize for maximum ‘feel goods’ for misery, usually. Most others are somewhere in between.
Either way, if they didn’t want/need the money, they’d be going to medicine sans frontiers or working in rural medicine eh?
Skipping some quibbles,would you agree that some optimizations for profit would lead to business death?
Eg, businesses that cheat and get caught. Businesses that over consume and can no longer produce.Also, that optimization can have the opposite effect. Eg, optimize revenue by showing max ads, with max ads users start to flee. A hospital could optimize for patientoutcomes, and then do better because the patients stay around.
This overall though assumes that free market principles work in healthcare. Those principles tend to assume consumer choice.
One thing that is annoying is that many open source projects have been getting "garbage commits" apparently from people looking to "build cred" for resumes or such.
Easier and easier to hide this junk in amongst them.
They already have been. Tell me what other industry has as much oversight. The FFA exist with the sole intent of regulating anything to do with air travel. Imagine if the USDA decided that McDonalds had to stop selling Big Mac's because they found 1 that contained listeria, and had to inspect Millions of pounds of meat prior to letting them resume sale. Car recalls exist, but you don't see us stop driving when brakes fail or hackers can hijack your CAN system.
That's not what democratizing means. It doesn't refer to regulation or oversight, but rather to worker ownership and organisation of the group or business in question. Collectively owned / horizontally managed businesses do exist at scale, from farm cooperatives to the Brazilian industrial giant SEMCO.
We don't care that your right, and its working. We didn't love you for your business acumen and superior number crunching skills. No we loved you because you brought us the movies we loved and you tried making it an experience that we couldn't find anywhere else. Now?, now your just another soulless money grabbing company that's lost it's way and sold out to squeeze every dime from its customers. Your just another in a long line of businesses that we reluctantly hand our money over to because you have one movie, one series that we love more than you. Once you lose the rights to that, or maybe you just push a bit to hard, we will move on. You have become the thing you tried to destroy, a parasite, a tick that sucks every last drop out of your customer, until we violently rip you out of our lives. Yeah, glad you were "right" Netflix, enjoy it while it last.
yes. Same goes for a lot of other fields, eg airport security. Now one of the shops I worked in was very deep in moral/ethical responsibility but it seems an outlier. The reason I say yes is partially due to morals/ethics having something of a cost. Low paid people aren't paid well enough to mitigate the cruelty or rudeness they're often treated with.
