More education won't always make you smarter

Why should I have to go to school for six more years so I can do what I'm already good at? That's what I don't like about our current healthcare system.

You have people with a talent. They should be able to  use it. What difference does it make if they have a degree?

Who wants degrees? Who is going to try to convince you you need more degrees? It's the colleges and universities. They make money off you going to their colleges. So, they are going to try to convince the powers that be that you need more degrees.

But do you? Do respiratory therapists need 2 more years of college to be good respiratory therapists. If that were the case, then none of us with associate's degrees would be any good at what we do. And we all know that certainly is not true.

So what if an RT wants to teach about asthma in a doctor's office? What if we want to help a physician help an asthmatic patient. We can do it in the hospital setting. But, we can't in the doctor's office. We can't unless we go to school for six more years to become a physician's assistant. And being an RT certainly would set one up nicely to getting into a PA school.

Sure, more education can make you smarter. But it can also corrupt you. This is because many of our schools have a left-leaning agenda. So, of course they want you to go there. They want to corrupt you. But, they also want your money.

And you have a lot of people who never went to college who know more than people with six year degrees. Look at Rush Limbaugh as an example. He has no degree. But, he also knows more about economics than many of the most well educated politicians do.

And you have people with associate's degrees who know more about asthma than people with doctorate's degrees do. They are called respiratory therapists.

I like physician's assistants (PAs)

I love physician's assistants (PA).  They practice medicine under a licenced physician, yet often times they seem to be wiser than doctors.  Not always is this true, but quite often.  I think the reason is because they worked as nurses and RTs. 

PAs don't seem to order useless breathing treatments because they've worked at the bedside long enough, and with RTs, to know they don't do anything for all that wheezes and all dyspnea. 

Many doctors are completely oblivious to what really works for patients, at least when it comes to respiratory stuff, and so they tend to order whatever they were taught to order.  Sometimes they even order out of habit. 

PAs tend to assess and order therapies based on that assessment, and doctors tend to go down the list of procedures in their head and treat all patients with a given disease the same, kind of like an order set. 

Doctors tend to be more autocratic, and don't like to give autonomy to RTs.  PAs love to ask RTs what they think, and tend to be more a part of the team. 

What I write here is not always the case, yet it tend to be often enough.  PAs tend to be happier and nicer on the phone and in person.  They tend to be more open minded and friendlier in general.  Again, not always, yet quite often.


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