How Do We Know It'll Be Worth It?
Tech creates leverage, which creates inequality.
As the world speeds up, the rewards of certain (often unpredictable) opportunities become ludricous, while the value of everything else rounds to zero.
So how can we be sure medical training is worth all the time and effort?
In short: we can't.
The future is too uncertain to predict an optimal (or even safe) path forward.
How to get around this?
The only wrong answer, as far as I can tell, is to do nothing.
Certain things, like pain tolerance and iteration speed, are useful. But only in service of the fundamental moral decision: keep trying to move forward, despite the risk, no matter what.
Medicine is as good a place to start as any. Nobody knows where we'll end up, but that's irrelevant.
Maybe, with time, we can not only pass medical school, but think past it. Maybe we can get the upside of real experience, without the downside of blind dependence.
Only one way to find out.
Look around. There's no shortage of suffering. Everywhere I turn, I see people in pain. It's not good enough. These are solvable problems. We can fix them, if we work harder.