Gijs Limonard

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How much good does a doctor do? When people think of careers that make a difference, they tend to imagine jobs like teaching, social work and medicine. So, when we started 80,000 Hours, one of the first questions we asked was: how much good do these careers actually do? We started by making estimates of the impact you’d have by becoming a doctor who practices clinical medicine. The main purpose of doctors is to improve health, so we tried to estimate how much extra “health” a doctor adds. Working with a Cambridge public health researcher, Dr. Greg Lewis, we found that on average in the course ...more
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80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
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