Sometimes, I wish there were just Gunsmoke's Doc Adams -- just a medic who looked up and down at his patients, scratched his jaw, and came to his own decision on what they needed.
Somehow, it seems maybe the old days did it better, in some ways. Back then, there wasn't so much training, with doctors being taught, "You do it this way." Learning all about medicine in medical school is obviously a plus -- a big plus -- but it does have this one disadvantage.
You are taught to follow the book. Not too much rubbing your chin and figuring it out, like Doc Adams used to do. Patients were individuals. Now-days, the book tells you what to do in each case, and you pull the closest fit out of your doctoring book and apply it. No room for saying, "I think we need to vary just a bit from the book, in your case."
Assembly line medicine, corporate medicine.
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