We can start by treating this as an important problem and tasking ourselves with looking for and finding alternatives and putting political/financial pressure on these institutions to consider them.

Just asking "but what are the alternatives" isn't productive in itself, and doesn't really carry the conversation forward. It more likely shuts it down as a hopeless problem. We can do better. It's not hopeless and we're not powerless as a collective.

I'm sure there are alternatives but we're not looking for them very well. We could start there. I'm doing my part by bringing this up in conversation whenever it's relevant and getting to know my state representative and state senator. I also make noise towards the hospital's admins in the meanwhile.

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Also, the article discusses possible alternatives. Here are a couple of paragraphs from it:

"This begins with our own training. Certainly doctors must understand disease, but medical education is overly skewed toward the biomedical sciences and minutiae about esoteric and rare disease processes. Doctors also need time to engage with the humanities, because they are the gateway to the human experience."

"To restore balance between the art and the science of medicine, we should curtail initial coursework in topics like genetics, developmental biology and biochemistry, making room for training in communication, interpersonal dynamics and leadership."