However, as someone with medical training, this experience prompted me to introspect more than anything I ever saw before. This is not just about my own private failures in the face of disaster, it has also re-kindled my conviction that a lot of things are deeply wrong with medicine as it is practiced today. Many of these things are fixable in the short term, but won't be because of clinical culture. What's worse, many other things are only fixable long-term if we as a civilization can manage commit to a certain kind of research even if it's not justifiable by (short term) profits. I've become very pessimistic about this.
However, as someone with medical training, this experience prompted me to introspect more than anything I ever saw before. This is not just about my own private failures in the face of disaster, it has also re-kindled my conviction that a lot of things are deeply wrong with medicine as it is practiced today. Many of these things are fixable in the short term, but won't be because of clinical culture. What's worse, many other things are only fixable long-term if we as a civilization can manage commit to a certain kind of research even if it's not justifiable by (short term) profits. I've become very pessimistic about this.