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by jimmywanger
3540 days ago
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> For dealing with something as simple as diarrhea, you have to understand the anatomy of the GI tract... You don't have to understand it. You can say "Hey, usually when you take this pill things get better" or "Just keep him hydrated with a water/salt/sugar mixture, and these things generally take care of themselves." Human life is cheap. There are 7 billion of us. Why are we optimizing for the very few to reduce medical care for the masses? |
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I think this is the main point I and the other commenters are trying to explain. You do have to understand it. Imagine someone coming and telling you your software job is better done by overseas contractors - they're less efficient and cheaper so you naturally must be overpaid.
Except that ignores the many ways in which your training might make your higher cost worthwhile.
> Why are we optimizing for the very few to reduce medical care for the masses?
Are you implying there's a concerted effort to deny care? With the proliferation of nurse practitioners and physicians assistants, we're broadening the range of people who can take care of our population. Overseas, groups like Partners in Health are training community members to offer care in order to fill in gaps in health care availability.
Sorry to take this to its extreme, but I think you're proposing the idea of the marketplace finding the optimum amount of training for caregivers. As a point of opinion, this kind of system would be far more disadvantageous for society's less powerful than what we have now.