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maxerickson 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine

Perhaps we could consider making it less burdensome?

It's bizarre that these discussions seem to start from the assumption that we got here intentionally by only making good decisions.

s1artibartfast 7 months ago [–]

The people have "decided" that they prefer extremely high quality and cost doctors to a high supply of doctors.

Regulation, left unchecked, favors constant indirect damage from shortage to more visible direct harms.

This is why it takes 3000 hours of training to cut someone's hair.

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