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Well, while most have the pass/fail system, they go a bit further. I didn't elaborate before, but some have fail/pass/high pass, or honors. I would disagree with the statement that it promotes mediocrity. The rationale is that it reduces competition among students fighting for extra minute percentage points, or trying to score higher than their neighbor. It promotes learning for the sake of learning.
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It also covers the behinds of the doctors when some people check up on their degress and ask what grades they got in med school. A doctor probably wouldn't like any C grades leaking out into the general public.
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Do you think I'm going to trust someone who sells herbal tea or does energy healing? Fuck no.
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I'm trying really hard not to incite a tangental discussion or make a scene, but is this attitude a result of a bad experience or something related? Ustwo, I hope your basis for what comes across to me as vehemence is not due to fearmongering stories you can site on the Internet about quacks and the like, but because of something else. I bring all this up because I feel this goes along the same lines as the original post, in that your distrust of "alternative" treatments (which is also apparent in the holistic thread going around) might help us shed some insight on just why any of us might choose to trust the voice of one alleged doctor over another.
Personally, I wouldn't trust ANY doctor unless they paid the appropriate amount of attention to what I was telling them, laid out the options clearly and as unbiased as possible (and in doing so showed that they knew what they were talking about), and would not be ashamed to refer my healthcare to someone they felt was more appropriately experienced. This is how we build trust amongst friends and people we see everyday, so I use the same criteria for doctors too.