A series of excellent points!
Hopefully future healthcare policy makers (both in the public and private sector) will read them, and get some good advice from them...
>"Training more doctors would supposedly compromise patient safety because it would mean lowering the bar for admissions and straining existing staff that need to train them. Even if you could admit and train them all, supplying enough doctors to meet market demand would cause a wage collapse breaking the ROI of med school expenses."
There seems to be a vicious circle in place between too much medical regulation requiring a corresponding amount of long and expensive education, and the high cost of medical education in general...
Which one is cause and which one is effect I do not know...
It would seem to the casual observer, that both aspects might feed into one another...
One thing I do know is that doctors from foreign countries, especially if they are third-world countries, typically have had to pay less, sometimes a whole lot less, for their medical education, compared to their U.S. counterparts...
Is that medical education as good as a U.S. medical education? Well, I don't know! Maybe it is in some cases, maybe it isn't in others...
What is known though is that foreign medical educations frequently cost less, sometimes a whole lot less -- than their U.S. counterparts...
Is hiring foreign doctors the solution or part of the solution?
I don't know that either, but I do know that there are a lot of foreign doctors (and previously foreign doctors before becoming U.S. Citizens) in the U.S., and certainly many more abroad...
Is AI the solution, or part of the solution?
It's definitely a wildcard with promise at this point; it'll be interesting to see where it goes in the future...
Anyway, you make some excellent points!
Hopefully future policy makers will read them and act on them...
Hopefully future healthcare policy makers (both in the public and private sector) will read them, and get some good advice from them...
>"Training more doctors would supposedly compromise patient safety because it would mean lowering the bar for admissions and straining existing staff that need to train them. Even if you could admit and train them all, supplying enough doctors to meet market demand would cause a wage collapse breaking the ROI of med school expenses."
There seems to be a vicious circle in place between too much medical regulation requiring a corresponding amount of long and expensive education, and the high cost of medical education in general...
Which one is cause and which one is effect I do not know...
It would seem to the casual observer, that both aspects might feed into one another...
One thing I do know is that doctors from foreign countries, especially if they are third-world countries, typically have had to pay less, sometimes a whole lot less, for their medical education, compared to their U.S. counterparts...
Is that medical education as good as a U.S. medical education? Well, I don't know! Maybe it is in some cases, maybe it isn't in others...
What is known though is that foreign medical educations frequently cost less, sometimes a whole lot less -- than their U.S. counterparts...
Is hiring foreign doctors the solution or part of the solution?
I don't know that either, but I do know that there are a lot of foreign doctors (and previously foreign doctors before becoming U.S. Citizens) in the U.S., and certainly many more abroad...
Is AI the solution, or part of the solution?
It's definitely a wildcard with promise at this point; it'll be interesting to see where it goes in the future...
Anyway, you make some excellent points!
Hopefully future policy makers will read them and act on them...