Old 02-13-2009 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by hiredgun
Good call. That's just what the airline industry needs...cadet first officers good enough to just "get by". In fact, all health and safety critical professions like say...medicine could take a cue from you by dumbing down standards and training, open up the career field to prospective cadets with a 2.0 GPA or less living in their parents' basements, trained at the community college in a very narrow range of medicine like the MPL pilots so we could "get by with much less" and pay them a fraction of the "real" doctors who could be called in when the patient flatlined or stroked out at the hands of the cadet-doctor trained to write scripts and diagnose off the gouge from www.WebMD.com Your idea could be put into a slogan for a company, a sports team, a branch of the armed forces or a country for that matter: "Good enough to get by".
I would also like to add that medicine does have its versions of lessor paid and experienced doctors. They are called nurses, physicians assistants and resident doctors in training. They all work under the supervision of an experienced and qualified medical doctor but at a much lower price.

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