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- From: DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Indoctrinating Interns
- Message-ID: <92213.110734DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:07:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.162823.254@falcon.navsses.navy.mil>
- <4049@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Organization: Penn State University
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- In article <4049@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle) says:
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- Long interesting section on why training doctors is different than training
- persons in other professions.
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- >Those of us who train physicians are as interested in teaching medicine as
- >we are in indoctrination. And believe me, we are not subtle about the
- >indoctrination part. By the time we finish our training we need to have
- >acquired a couple of things. First is a truckload of factual information,
- >which will allow us to be competent at what we do. The second is a mental
- >attitude, one that makes our patient come first, even at the expense of
- >our personal life. This is what allows us to be good, not merely competent,
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- There are a number of doctors, including several in this group, who have
- argued that the physicians comin out of medical school today DO NOT
- exhibit this concern for patients that you desire. Instead, they are,
- according to these doctors, more concerned with making money. If that's
- so (and feel free to voice your own thoughts about the merit of that claim)
- then the indoctrination is not working.
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- >at what we do. And it is this second aspect of our training that is the
- >hardest to achieve. And it is done through indoctrination. And I don't feel
- >we need to apologize for doing it. Especially in this group where we catch
- >so much shit every time someone runs into a doctor who is either not very
- >competent or not very caring.
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- Dennis G. Shea, Penn State
- <<DISCLAIMER>>
- Ain't nobody's bizness but my own. I'll be happy to accept all
- the credit for anything I've written. It's funny, however, how
- employers only acknowledge the profitable ideas.
-