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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: misc.education,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.math,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: What can we have for an educational system?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:17:35 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov12.162137.24580@news.unige.ch> <BxsELH.65C@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <1992Nov16.143453.22123@news.unige.ch> <BxwrDA.6ns@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
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- In article <BxwrDA.6ns@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.143453.22123@news.unige.ch> swann@divsun.unige.ch (SWANN Philip) writes:
- >
- >>On the contrary, I think that the legal and medical professions contain
- >>about the same proportion of mediocrities and incompetents as the teaching
- >>profession does.
- >
- >On what basis do you reach that conclusion? If nothing else, I have never had
- >a medical problem which was not well-treated by my doctor.
-
- Give yourself a bit more time...it will eventually happen. (What's the figure
- for mortality due to "medical excursions" in the U.S. in a year? 900K or so?)
-
- I've had doctors admit to making mistakes more than once with our family in
- the past five years. Fortunately all on minor issues. It's a good thing that
- we haven't had to deal with any *major* issues so far.
-
- >I have never had bad advice from my lawyer.
-
- Lucky you. Maybe you should talk to my father about problems caused by
- incompetent lawyers. He are one, he knows some scary stories.
-
- >Additionally, I have never had a doctor who thought that sickness was OK.
-
- There are altogether too many who figure it's ok to wait until a problem
- manifests itself annoyingly and needs to be treated by surgery or some
- severe drug therapy, rather than bugging patients to try to fix root
- problems so that don't *get* big. (But that's a chronic problem with
- medicine out here...)
-
- >I HAVE had teachers who thought that ignorance was perfectly acceptable.
-
- Nothing wrong with ignorance...there *is* something wrong with not fixing
- the problem when you discover that you *are* ignorant. (Maybe that was
- their point of view?)
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