[HSF] Sympathy anyone.......

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Ani,
Your long and detailed answer to my comment describes how imperfect our  
system is. Your front line doctor is dealing in reasonable guesses, your  
cardiologist does not need a medical degree to do his specialised task, andall  
imperfection  is forgiven.
We could run the system by having a large staff of ubermensche seeing every  
patient at first contact and coming up with a differential diagnosis with  
various consequent treatment and dealing with the patient long enough to be sure  
he /she goes down the optimal path. Subsequent attention would be  provided 
by highly trained non medical technicians to do the  tests, remove the gall 
bladder , place the stents etc, with other  specialist non doctors providing 
comforting words and so on.
When I finished medical school I said to myself the most good I could do  
with my degree would be to be the best possible general practioner (archaic  
term) but on reflection I decided I could never learn enough to reach that  goal 
and so I went into surgery.
Bob



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