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Agreed.One more step towards socialism
Realistically, I would have liked to know that the entire practice of shadowing is essentially useless compared to finding a clinical opportunity that allowed me to interact with patients and have more than zero responsibility for them. As a freshman I shadowed for a year at the university's hospital in surgery and emergency medicine then moved on to working in an actual clinic where I spoke with patients and provided basic services (blood pressure, flu shots, vision and hearing, etc.). Even though the latter may seem like nothing, I learned infinitely more about the practice of medicine as an art having some responsibility for patients compared to watching the docs do their thing and talking to them/standing and watching them talk to patients.