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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree medical school should require some sort of mandatory number of hours worked like the military. Maybe the minimum per year is some part time number but there should be some cumulative number that adds up to five years practice. [/quote]

This is beyond stupid on many levels, the least of which is that the military requires young officers to work a certain number of years because it *paid for their education.*

Also, you think some sort of minimum work requirement, where the physician has no choice in his or her schedule, is going to *incentivize* more people to become doctors?

Idiocy abounds.  [/quote]

Something has to give if the number of people going into the profession is restricted and then those same people decide to quit after 5 years. 
Maybe they should make the training free in exchange for a work commitment (similar to the military).[/quote]

How about start teaching doctors how to heal?

Bring back the Hippocratic Oath:
FIRST DO NO HARM.

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You are fetishizing a black-and-white statement from back when there wasn't even reliable antibiotics or routinely survivable surgeries.

Look at what you want: "FIRST DO NO HARM." That's NO harm, not just "justified" harm, or "a small amount of harm for great reward." It's NO harm.

No medications with any side effects at all?
No CT scans?
No general anesthesia, even for an infant with a brain tumor?
No surgeries at all?
No chemotherapy?

I can see why you find modern medicine distasteful. Unfortunately, balancing benefits and risks doesn't fit in the tiny little sentence from the (other, not the oath) writings of Hippocrates back around 400 years BC.[/quote]

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