That is partially because hospitals are set up, first and foremost, to benefit staff – patients are often considered mere clients through whom hospitals make a profit. Universities, too, are meant to benefit the staff – students are only loved for the tuition they pay. That’s why many small-time North American and European universities are enrolling Chinese students like never before because, unlike before, they’re now (sometimes the only ones) able to pay the high tuition fees.
In this day and age of capitalism, you can say the same thing about any profit-making industry but that’s straying too far from our main point of discussion.
And that is second opinion. By extension, second opinion can be used in any area – not just in the hospital – referring to a second critical analysis from a qualified source, either to confirm or dispute a previously given analysis.
Put it simply, second opinions are another point of view taken to ensure that you’re making the right decisions.
And how can one learn about a new term better than via real examples? Here are a few from the media:
1. One-third of adults in a recent survey said they had never sought a second opinion for a medical problem.
The survey of 1,000 adults by Harris Interactive didn’t ask those people whether they had ever had a serious or poorly understood illness or been advised to have surgery. But if they had, many experts say, those medical consumers were selling themselves short and possibly endangering their health.
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