• @Sterile_Technique
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    243 hours ago

    Stupid doctors. Starting in the medical field, I had this notion that a doctor is this kind of universally intelligent, best-of-humanity kind of person.

    Some of them are.

    But some of them are absolute dumbasses who happen to have a photographic memory that carried them through med school… Like, full blown trumpanzee, falls for conspiracy theory bullshit, superstitious nutjob, knuckle-dragging, slack-jawed idiot.

    It shouldn’t be possible. No one who makes it through med school should be mentally capable of instantly plummeting to the rock-bottom of stupid as soon as they step foot outside of their field of study (which fortunately most of those types deliver at least passable quality of care).

    • @rottingleaf
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      22 hours ago

      rock-bottom of stupid as soon as they step foot outside of their field of study

      That’d be too many people around me, from the qualified kind. I’m not a doctor though.

      Sorry, it’s impossible. It’s normal for people to be what you described. Just human.

      I mean, if you actually manage to create a working procedure for such selection, half the people in the profession will have Aspergers, always red eyes and sleep at work, and the other half will be NT, but some bloody geniuses whose abilities would rather be used in something like fundamental science.

      • @somethingsnappy
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        11 hour ago

        I know a few people closely that I’d consider a genius. I only know one that went into a field where their genius mattered. He changed fundamentals of microbiology. One high school dropout, one just surviving and making decent money doing whatever they try.

        • @rottingleaf
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          11 hour ago

          I only know one that went into a field where their genius mattered.

          That’d be one more than I know, if we don’t count relatives.

          One high school dropout,

          My tribe.

          one just surviving and making decent money doing whatever they try.

          That actually sounds nice.