What Goes On In Medicine Goes On In Colleges
I have written many times before about the parallels between our college system and our healthcare system. They are both the biggest rip-offs in this country. Their prices have increased exponentially over the past three decades with no real justification behind it. There is also the rapid rise in administrator birth rate which is plaguing the system.
PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE FROM 2019 AS A PRIMER.
This leads me to mention this article here. It’s called NEWS, BAD AND GOOD, FROM THE DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCES and I challenge you to tell the difference between their parody of our college system and our healthcare system. Some examples:
- We have no money for raises, but we’ve used the money we would otherwise have spent on raises to hire a Morale Boosting Consultant.
- Enrollments are down again this year, but we are building another new building, just in case our enrollments go up.
- On Prospective Student Day, Admitted Student Day, and Please Don’t Transfer Day, faculty and staff will be expected to don the costume of our beloved mascot, Dolly the Distracted I-Gen Labradoodle. It may get sweaty in there! But our consultants tell us this new policy will reap not only enrollment but also branding dividends. Bow wow!
- In related bad news, our trustees and most of our high-level administrators have no experience or interest in the field of higher education. But they do have experience and interest in management science. Which is universal.
Okay, that’s just a tease. Read the whole thing and enjoy.
Shoot, I got into med school in ’78 and it was dicey at best. I didn’t know what I would do with a biochemistry major after that. My dad attended the same undergraduate school for one or two years and then took off to start a business that flourishes to this day.
My dad told me when I was 15 years old, ” Your mother and I don’t care what you do but you are going to college and we’re going to pay for it!” He didn’t graduate. He was smiling immensely when I graduated from medical school. Supported me all the way and I had a cheap, but nice $120.00 a month apartment in Peoria, Illinois when I was going to med school and early residency. Actually it was a nice place and later I paid 20 bucks extra a month to park my car in a garage out back. The rent went up a little bit but not so bad.
EHR has screwed medicine into the ground and there is no going back. Worst thing that has ever happened and I do not recommend anyone going into the “low paying” family practice or so-called primary care medicine specialty unless there is a good “salary”, no hospital practice and no “call”.
This whole experiment that they’ve been playing, today is number 751, is the most decisive absurd, manipulative, evil I have ever witnessed in my very close to 60 years! Nothing is better everything is backwards. People are under educated, poor health, and governments across the globe are financing it.