There are many avenues with which to attack our dismal healthcare system. For today’s post, he picked MPH’s , possibly because they’re the ones in these articles making the ridiculous recommendations for adults to get MMR boosters. Tomorrow it may be another subset of healthcare. There are plenty…
There are many avenues with which to attack our dismal healthcare system. For today’s post, he picked MPH’s , possibly because they’re the ones in these articles making the ridiculous recommendations for adults to get MMR boosters. Tomorrow it may be another subset of healthcare. There are plenty of bad health ideas, lacking in scientific rigor, circulating in our legacy media and online forums. I wouldn’t get too caught up in the fact that he didn’t outline problems in other areas, of which there are many, and my guess is that he would agree with you on that point.
Maybe, but he still is besides the point. He should ask of himself what he asks of other: rigorousness. Again, it is not by giving higher salaries to MPHs and people in PH in general that we will get better results. North America (same here in Canada) has by far the highest paid physicians, but I would argue that does not translate into better physicians. Medical students are mostly exam performance machines, and they are told throughout their formation that they have intelligence by far superior to other the rest of us: nothing to develop humility and autocriticism. Do not expect other results from people that basically are asked to learn tons of algorithms, not to understand and develop their critical thinking. And thus we are leading the world in overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Same problem with Veterinary medicine, my field, by the way.
May I present another way to look at this?
There are many avenues with which to attack our dismal healthcare system. For today’s post, he picked MPH’s , possibly because they’re the ones in these articles making the ridiculous recommendations for adults to get MMR boosters. Tomorrow it may be another subset of healthcare. There are plenty of bad health ideas, lacking in scientific rigor, circulating in our legacy media and online forums. I wouldn’t get too caught up in the fact that he didn’t outline problems in other areas, of which there are many, and my guess is that he would agree with you on that point.
Maybe, but he still is besides the point. He should ask of himself what he asks of other: rigorousness. Again, it is not by giving higher salaries to MPHs and people in PH in general that we will get better results. North America (same here in Canada) has by far the highest paid physicians, but I would argue that does not translate into better physicians. Medical students are mostly exam performance machines, and they are told throughout their formation that they have intelligence by far superior to other the rest of us: nothing to develop humility and autocriticism. Do not expect other results from people that basically are asked to learn tons of algorithms, not to understand and develop their critical thinking. And thus we are leading the world in overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Same problem with Veterinary medicine, my field, by the way.