I am a veterinarian practicing for 29 years and I am happy to be finishing my career soon. Veterinary medicine parallels human medicine in the loss of critical thinking, good history taking, AI generation of differentials and a conveyor belt approach to medicine that is rewarded. The basic tenet of medicine- Occam's Razor is impossible t…
I am a veterinarian practicing for 29 years and I am happy to be finishing my career soon. Veterinary medicine parallels human medicine in the loss of critical thinking, good history taking, AI generation of differentials and a conveyor belt approach to medicine that is rewarded. The basic tenet of medicine- Occam's Razor is impossible to follow in this environment.
Some veterinarians are at the stage, which I hope human medicine has tried and discarded, of dealing with one body issue at a time???- just treat the uveitis - it's an eye thing - what??
I feel at the root of all of this in all of medicine is the corporatization of medicine with private clinics following out of necessity because financially they can't compete, an algorithm in general practice that follows treat and street and a general approach to everything in medicine and everything else that is fine with AI non-critical thinking in problem solving. It's all about the money in medicine and to no fault to a lot of practitioners who have no control over it and wished it wasn't- it's very hard to climb out of now - unfortunately universally we need to accept medicine practiced at 70%, not 50% (the patient or the client:) will complain) and certainly not 90% -which is no longer rewarded- it's fiscally not possible and only a small population of patients/clients will recognize 70% vs 90% given what all of us have had to accept universally. It only makes sense that education will follow the same algorithm.
I am a veterinarian practicing for 29 years and I am happy to be finishing my career soon. Veterinary medicine parallels human medicine in the loss of critical thinking, good history taking, AI generation of differentials and a conveyor belt approach to medicine that is rewarded. The basic tenet of medicine- Occam's Razor is impossible to follow in this environment.
Some veterinarians are at the stage, which I hope human medicine has tried and discarded, of dealing with one body issue at a time???- just treat the uveitis - it's an eye thing - what??
I feel at the root of all of this in all of medicine is the corporatization of medicine with private clinics following out of necessity because financially they can't compete, an algorithm in general practice that follows treat and street and a general approach to everything in medicine and everything else that is fine with AI non-critical thinking in problem solving. It's all about the money in medicine and to no fault to a lot of practitioners who have no control over it and wished it wasn't- it's very hard to climb out of now - unfortunately universally we need to accept medicine practiced at 70%, not 50% (the patient or the client:) will complain) and certainly not 90% -which is no longer rewarded- it's fiscally not possible and only a small population of patients/clients will recognize 70% vs 90% given what all of us have had to accept universally. It only makes sense that education will follow the same algorithm.