[ramblenode]

I'm leaning toward this being top-notch satire, but I can't be entirely sure---and that's a good thing.

> Without those standards, the profession would lose its weight, its dignity. If becoming a doctor were simply a matter of competence and compassion, we’d all be wearing name tags and making $60,000 a year.

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from fundamentalist ravings, so says Poe.

But this comment has me solidly believing it's satire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495692. Not that I can't believe someone would really think that way, just that the odds of them being an actual psychopath who doesn't see what they're saying seem lower than the odds of a non-psychopathic person taking the opportunity to make a joke.

[amanaplanacanal]

Yeah they're definitely trolling us.