Comments on: What’s Wrong with the Health Care System? http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/ Rants of a medicine resident born, raised, and trained in The South... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Parcho, MD http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-116 Parcho, MD Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:26:09 +0000 http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-116 Thanks for the kind words Susy. Nobrainer--med school admissions certainly work both ways. Lots of people just don't get in to any program--much less the program they want. Thanks for the kind words Susy.

Nobrainer–med school admissions certainly work both ways. Lots of people just don’t get in to any program–much less the program they want.

]]> By: nobrainer http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-115 nobrainer Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:04:27 +0000 http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-115 Susy Cat, It took me a while to decide whether to use positive or negative. From the strict definition, you are certainly correct. However I chose to use to negative because of the outcome. I guess I should have really called it a negative positive feedback loop. As for the competitiveness of admissions, are a lot of people being completely left out or just left out of the schools they want to attend? Oh well, even despite a sufficient quantity, it is still arguable that people who could be very good doctors go on to do other things simply because they don't want to deal with the pain of med school. Susy Cat,

It took me a while to decide whether to use positive or negative. From the strict definition, you are certainly correct. However I chose to use to negative because of the outcome. I guess I should have really called it a negative positive feedback loop.

As for the competitiveness of admissions, are a lot of people being completely left out or just left out of the schools they want to attend? Oh well, even despite a sufficient quantity, it is still arguable that people who could be very good doctors go on to do other things simply because they don’t want to deal with the pain of med school.

]]> By: Susy Cat http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-110 Susy Cat Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:34:52 +0000 http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-110 Nobrainer - I think you mean a positive feedback loop...it keeps perpetuating itself into self-destruction! I agree with you but, looking at the competitiveness of medical school admissions it seems that the medical field is not in a crisis for finding people that want to go to medical school. The problem is in specialties...some specialties are finding it hard to find candidates By the way, Parcho, MD. I like your blog. been reading it for a while but haven't commented yet. Nobrainer - I think you mean a positive feedback loop…it keeps perpetuating itself into self-destruction!
I agree with you but, looking at the competitiveness of medical school admissions it seems that the medical field is not in a crisis for finding people that want to go to medical school. The problem is in specialties…some specialties are finding it hard to find candidates

By the way, Parcho, MD. I like your blog. been reading it for a while but haven’t commented yet.

]]> By: Nobrainer http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-86 Nobrainer Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:24:57 +0000 http://parchomd.com/2007/04/11/whats-wrong-with-the-health-care-system/#comment-86 I have to wonder if the system is in a negative feedback loop. By that I'm wondering if the horror stories lead to fewer med students/residents, which in turn leads to less people to do the same amount of work, which leads to more horror stories, which leads to... I think you see where I'm going with this. I will not advocate that it should be easy to become a doctor, but it seems the system needs change to attract more people... and to not drive people insane. I have to wonder if the system is in a negative feedback loop. By that I’m wondering if the horror stories lead to fewer med students/residents, which in turn leads to less people to do the same amount of work, which leads to more horror stories, which leads to… I think you see where I’m going with this.

I will not advocate that it should be easy to become a doctor, but it seems the system needs change to attract more people… and to not drive people insane.

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