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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a thought experiment for everyone: suppose you are getting heart surgery this week and there are two surgeons available.  You can google them and find they are both 40-45 yo and worked in the same hospital for the last 15 years. One of them graduated from Harvard Medical and the other graduated from some osteopathic medical college in the Carribbean.  You know nothing else about them. Who are you picking?

Everyone who chose the Harvard grad should accept the fact that the college name means something (however small that might be).

Everyone who chose the osteopathic merical college in the Carribbean grad is lying and making bad-faith arguments on this board.[/quote]

I had a heart attack in 2020. They took me to the hospital and said I would have open heart surgery the next morning. I did not even ask my surgeon what medical school she went to. I assumed she was board certified and experienced, and that was what mattered. She did her job and I’m still alive today.

So tell me, am I lying and arguing in bad faith when I say what medical school you attend doesn’t matter?[/quote]

Or put another way...there are a lot of important medical decisions that need to be made in response to an emergency.  You don't have the luxury of waiting 30 or 60 days to identify the Harvard-trained cardiologist.

We had a family member that was rushed to the Georgetown hospital ER with what presented as a possible cardiac event (turned out to be something else that could have been serious in its right, but was not).  The doctors provided great treatment and all turned out well.  After the fact did some research on the doctor and the doctor we saw for a follow-up exam.  Neither attended a medical school of which I had ever heard...certainly not US medical schools...possibly Caribbean, but no idea. [/quote]

And in the US--1 in 4 US medical students attend an Osteopathic Medical School--and they are good schools.  It's not like some second rate option.  While they are eligible to serve in all areas of medicine, they tend to be primary care physicians.[/quote]

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