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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the lines in the petition was that grades didn’t reflect effort and time put in. Welcome to the rest of your life, dummies! [/quote]

Ha! Sorry snowflake, no standards based learning and multiple “retests” and “retakes” like our public high school.[/quote]

I have no problem with retakes and retests in high school. The purpose is to have them learn the material, is it not?[/quote]

So when your doctor gets your diagnosis wrong the first time, that’s ok?  I mean, maybe he’ll get it the second or third time — it’s only important that they eventually got it right? [/quote]

Most drs get diagnoses wrong if it’s more than a cold/flu/bacterial infection.

They are trained to treat the most probable cause, that’s not a diagnosis. They treat symptoms. They give you advice or meds and send you in your way. If you’re still sick they send you for more tests. If those come back clean they generally say, yea you’re fine. But you know you are not.

You push for more so they might get you more tests and send you to a specialist.

That’s how doctors work. They know a very narrow portion of medicine. It’s up to the patient to keep at it to get to the root cause.

If you don’t go to a top doctor you’re screwed.

Even people with infertility know, they need $$$ and the top clinic. Cancer … top clinics. Most fifties are useless past a cold or bacterial infection.[/quote]
DP.. maybe but I think the point is that most people *don't want* a doctor who has to keep doing retakes.  Wouldn't you want a doctor who can usually diagnose it correctly the first time?

Same for students and test taking.   [/quote]

I want one that learned the material .. I don’t care if it was this week or next week.[/quote]

I can't tell which PP I'm agreeing with, but when you go to a top doctor, they're willing to admit your situation is unique and there's no way they know the answer already.  But they ask you to repeat everything you know, and begin to research.  The bad doctors, try to snow you like it's exam day.[/quote]
a doctor asking you to repeat your symptoms and research your issue is not at all like a student who has to retake the exam a few times in order to pass it.  It would be more like the student who studies the material, asks the prof. questions, reads the material, then again goes back to the professor with  more questions, then takes the exam.[/quote]

Nope, it’s the student who is use to asking for help. Not the one that just agrees to read the book and teach himself.[/quote]

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