Things that keep me up at night
There was an article in the SF Chronicle today about a shortage
of mammogram-reading doctors for health clinics in SF.
Now, surely you want an expert to read and interpret mammograms,
but why do you need to be a doctor (with everything else that
presumably entails) to do it?
The article implied that these people were specialists; that this
is all they did. And that they make shitloads of money. Couldn't
you find people with the right abilities and train them to read
mammograms in a couple of years, instead of them having to spend
however many years it is to become a doctor and then a
mammogram-reading expert?
We don't insist that pilots have a PhD in aeronautical engineering.
Why do we insist that those who seem to have a very important, specialized
and technical skill be MD's as well?
of mammogram-reading doctors for health clinics in SF.
Now, surely you want an expert to read and interpret mammograms,
but why do you need to be a doctor (with everything else that
presumably entails) to do it?
The article implied that these people were specialists; that this
is all they did. And that they make shitloads of money. Couldn't
you find people with the right abilities and train them to read
mammograms in a couple of years, instead of them having to spend
however many years it is to become a doctor and then a
mammogram-reading expert?
We don't insist that pilots have a PhD in aeronautical engineering.
Why do we insist that those who seem to have a very important, specialized
and technical skill be MD's as well?