[LibWhacker]

I know, it's crazy. First they say that training has been cut from 30,000 to 8,000 hours, then they trivialize it by making a big thing out of knots! I mean, come on . . . You can teach a motivated person to tie a dozen knots proficiently in an hour or two. That's not the problem. What else are they not learning?

[lainde]

They aren't getting "judgement". It's important to know when and when NOT to operate. You can teach a taxi driver to suture. But he has to practice that skill and form a judgement about what solution is appropriate for a particular patient. Thaty comes after seeing hundreds of patients and complex disease processes that don't present as something you look up on the internet in Merck's online.