[chimeracoder]

> This is not-even-wrong levels of reasoning here. Personally, your comments on this subthread, and the confidence with which you've delivered them, will stay with me for a long time, and whenever I find myself nodding along with something that is facilely convincing and authoritatively stated, I'll think back to your posts and remember to be a bit more skeptical, a bit more discerning. For that, I thank you. For the rest, well, I can't be as laudatory.

Look, I could respond to each of the points you bring up in turn, and explain how it's actually quite easy for those individual statements to be true but still impossible for most residency programs to turn a profit.

But I've been on Hacker News long enough to know that, when someone begins a lengthy comment with an insult that underhanded and that personal, there's no way that they're in the mood for a good-faith discussion, and attempting to engage further in a reasoned debate is a recipe for frustration.

I see you're a relatively new commenter here, so I'll just say: on the off-chance that this interpretation is wrong, and you were looking to have a good-faith discussion on the topic, I'd recommend next time leaving off the personal insults.

[sfashset]

Hmm I don't read the quoted text as a personal attack (snarky, okay fine) and I certainly don't see anything "underhanded" about what I posted, but if you think I'm posting in bad faith (all too endemic online, unfortunately), I don't think you can be faulted for not wanting to engage. That's certainly fair. And honestly, if you felt it was personal, I can apologize. Sorry.

That being said, you've made ~15 comments itt, in which you're variously appealed to your own authority ("Given my background, I understand exactly what residents do". Actually, I don't know any medical resident who could make such a statement, given how broad and diverse the fields that postgraduate medical training encompasses are, but sure.), and made repeated statements about what residents are and aren't capable of, all seemingly without citation or reference.

All of which is to say, I think if you could have made the case that the facts and figures posted above, and in this thread, are perfectly compatible with your contention about medical residents being a net financial drain for hospitals and academic centers, you would have done it by now. In that sense, I agree further debate would probably not be very productive.