Hello everyone, I’ll be hosting the megathread while un_mask_me is out.
I completely forgot I had to post it until just now.
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In one sense they do, in another sense it would be impractical.
It takes like 5 years to specialise as a doctor (Sort of averaging it out here, since it varies by specialty and country), and that’s after your original doctor training and working as a doctor full time for years, and whatever extracurriculars you had to also do (phd-mds are common, in part because some specialities are very competitive).
Expecting that kind of specialisation from everyone who simply operates the machine is not practical.
Plus even if they do have that level of specialty, they still have to bring it up to colleagues to double check, since everyone makes mistakes (They do here anyway).
In the other sense, everyone involved in using the machine received at least some training in how to interpret the results and may have years of experience doing so (There are techs who have logged more hours staring at test results than senior specialists). But they are still not specialists
I’m just frustrated by the entire medical profession. Everything takes ages to resolve, many things never get resolved. Meanwhile my life is down the drain.
Your frustration is both warranted and understandable. Especially because the entire healthcare sector is treating you like garbage. I’m just explaining the process.