What the hell were we/they thinking? Maximize profits at what expense?
The assembly line model for patient care will lead to medical errors and missed diagnoses, not to mention terrible patient satisfaction.
Blogging the trek of an non-traditional, older dude through a traditional physician educational process in a non-traditional world. Some people go out and buy a muscle car for their midlife crisis (I miss my '70 Camaro), but I decided to go to medical school. It is in God's hands and it's a RUSH.
Being a 50 something medical-school graduate now isn't as "nuts" as everyone seems to think. Just getting prepared for the rest of my life
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
Just another Blue Man...
"One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one’s time in religious offerings to the gods." -Dhammapada
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
— James Thurber
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), Chemist and educator
