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- From: labiche@bnr.ca (Maurice LaBiche)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Reliability in medicine and engineering (was: ... incomes)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.220418.5737@bnr.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:04:18 GMT
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- I understand that many processes are put in place by Companies
- or Standards Associations to ensure the quality of a product
- which may be involved in real life situations. However, that
- does not mean that all projects which get into the real world
- as products go through these stringent processes to ensure
- their dependability. I think we're getting into a discussion
- about whether an Engineer can worry as much about a problem
- and the possible solutions to it as a Doctor can about an
- individual patient.
-
- It is possible in any profession to become desensitized to the
- reality of the situation. Some doctors are very appropiately concerned
- about their patients well-being and some aren't.
- Hopefully most are concerned but I've seen many that don't appear to
- care once they're paid if they seemed to care at all.
- Maybe they just had terrible interpersonal skills.
-
- If capitalism isn't affecting the cost of medical care why do
- we pay so much for it? Is it because we've got so many
- middle-men collecting processing fees? Is it because of
- socialized medicine in Canada?
-
-
- Oh no, that's right we don't have a free market here at all.
-
- Sure,
-
- Maurice
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- Maurice LaBiche | labiche@bnr.ca
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- "The world is a strange place."
-