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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Physicians' effort Was: Re: Physician's Incomes
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:37:55 GMT
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- In article <17918@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >In article <92351.153826DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu> DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
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- >>>their efforts. Socialized medicine would encourage mediocrity.
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- >>What do you mean by socialized medicine? Do you have any evidence
- >>that physicians in Germany, Canada, France, Britain, etc. are mediocre?
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- >In my experience they aren't much different in competence than US
- >physicians. However, they do not work nearly as hard. They work
- >much more regular hours and have little incentive to do anything
- >extra. There is certainly something to be said for that, from
- >the physician's viewpoint.
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- Frankly, I consider a situation in which ANYBODY has little incentive
- to only "do the job" and not do anything extra as anti-human and
- highly to be deplored. This completely considers people as machines.
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- This is also where the current training of physicians, and indeed of
- almost everyone else, is tending. People should think and innovate,
- instead of acting like machines.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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