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Originally Posted by ilovetv

The writer's valuable insights were learned from real-life experience and not in a lecture hall nor scientific laboratory.

"Residents went from stretcher to stretcher, sorting out patient dispositions."

This gives insights as to how the big, famous teaching hospital doctors in training find and prioritize the patient's primary medical problems, and how insightful they are about deciding which information is taken further, and which information is ignored out of naïveté, inexperience, or plain old incompetence (like this patient's knee and hip).

This is a serious weakness of the big university teaching hospital setting, and often a strong, well administered community hospital can provide better, more patient-centered care overall. Teaching hospitals are focused on research which needs subjects, and are more centered on training the doctors. That's not to discredit them....we are blessed to have so many of them. But every system has its weaknesses.

All things consumers need to educate themselves about.

Your post is well taken.

Perhaps the teaching hospitals are waiting for someone to die
so that person can become their next subject??!?