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		evgen on March 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices > Because most doctors are happy to spend hours watching recordings of drug presentations. And yet somehow I am supposed to be overjoyed at spending hours watching conference talks, reading blog posts and documentation, and doing other things to evaluate new tech and learn new languages/libraries that are not my direct job just to keep up to date on my rapidly-changing industry? Welcome to the 21st century doctors. I would unpack and play the worlds tiniest violin for you, but I have a few more confreaks youtube videos to plough through right now.

dpark on March 30, 2017 [–]

I'm kind of impressed that you managed to turn this into an opportunity to whine about your own continuing education.

Also, just FYI doctors already have to do continuing education to maintain a license, which cuts into the time they can spend researching new drugs.

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