How would you handle covid 19?

[Iormlund]

Yeah I think all these rules about making medicine a post-graduate degree, limiting the people who can practise etc are all protectionist measures.  They just make it more difficult to join the market and compete with the existing doctors. 

That's true of every profession. I have like 40 sets of initials after my name now. CCNA CCNE, MCSE, MCSA, MSNA, A+, N+, S+, CME, blah blah. Certified Ethical Hacker for Christ's sake. It's out of control. The new nobility. KBE? Star Chamber?

The only thing all these dumbass initials after my name do is protect me from having to compete with smart motivated younger people. That's it.

The AMA is the same. Nothing but good old fashioned mercantilistic bully-boy guild tactics.

Do you really need fifteen years of school to set a broken arm? Come on.

Won't be able to do it for long though. I expect ML to replace most MDs within 25 years.

[Valmy]

Yeah US nurses are paid pretty well. I noticed when they changed that suddenly the number of male nurses skyrocketed 

[Barrister]

Medicine is a 4 year degree in HK?  And in the UK? 

5 year if you're an undergrad, 4 years if you're a grad plus a couple of years as a junior doctor (mandatory post-graduate training program) - after that you're in your specialism.

Although actually giving covid-19 there is talk of basically giving fifth year students an emergency graduation so they'll be junior doctors.

Edit: How long is it in the US?

Huh.  It's like law then - an undergraduate program in the UK, a post-graduate program in north america.

[Sheilbh]

Huh.  It's like law then - an undergraduate program in the UK, a post-graduate program in north america.

Weird. I'd say with law it's about 50/50 here who do it post-grad. I've never heard of someone doing medicine as a post-grad though it's possible.

Yeah US nurses are paid pretty well. I noticed when they changed that suddenly the number of male nurses skyrocketed 

I mean they're not wildly well-paid or that different from the UK on that table.

[Eddie Teach]

A lot of the traditional menial nursing tasks are covered by hospital workers who are called something different. Only the official nurses can dispense medicine.

[HVC]

Used to call them orderlies. Not sure if they still do