I love that hypothetical apocalyptical world were babies apparently don’t exist, and therefore, a large chunk of the deaths that were pervasive in humanity until not too long ago also stopped existing
How is the doctor going to provide any legitimate care that the new technology of the world brings if there is no one to generate the power or source the complex and fragile medications and tools.
Do you think doctors will be administrating epidurals and doing c sections when the works ends? Hell, modern doctors only really work because of an entire industry of health care professionals that support them.
A doctor without pharmacology, engineering, clean rooms, manufacturing facilities, etc. is just a guy who can do first aid (and that’s assuming they worked and studied in a field that would deal with immediate trauma scenarios). Doctors have benefits because they can capitalize on the support system that is international health care.
I have more confidence that an engineer could figure out how to repair, assemble, and operate an MRI machine than a doctor.
I also have more confidence in the care that an EMT would provide if I’m lying bleeding.
90 percent of doctors are just dudes who mis diagnose women and minorities and spend most of their time writing prescriptions for tylenol.
When it comes down to what is actually necessary, I think most doctors are not, so if we are ranking professions based on their importance, I would rank the jobs that even enable doctors to do what they do higher.
Also, not to be morbid, but humanity fared pretty well up until now, and for most of the few hundred thousand years we have been around, we handled babies the same way the rest of the animal kingdom did, by just continuing to spit them out and hope for the best.
Hell, the biggest medical advances aren’t even done by doctors they are done by scientists, doctors just apply shit they read out of a book.
lol was your ex a doctor? you’re not wrong that a lot of what we do today is dependent on massive supply chains and the work of vast armies of allied healthcare workers, engineers, scientists, and pharma, but most doctors offer common sense remedies for common ailments and can be as simple as rest and fluids for a cold and heating packs for a sore back. even as someone who did trauma surgery for a while and now does robotic surgery, sure I won’t be able to reconstruct your abdominal wall and safely reroute your intestines without modern anesthesia, ICUs, and antibiotics but even in modern times there are days that consist of hours of scraping old infected wounds, lancing boils/popping pimples, and talking about diet strategies to avoid hemorrhoids.
emts are valuable to stabilize and transport but can’t care for things long term. engineers can build mris but can’t interpret the fuzzy squiggles that pop up on the screen. I can distill my own alcohol for sterilization, hand weave silk/cotton sutures, and sharpen crude scalpels without modern technology. the biggest value I bring is my years of seeing sick people and figuring out what’s actually bothering them without WebMD or ai, even if I don’t have high tech solutions, ruling out the most dangerous potential diagnoses and finding the rare zebras.
edit: I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you’re either very young or very lucky with good health. not that I’m hoping you get sick but eventually all of us end up needing doctors to help us and when you do you’ll see what I mean. even though I don’t currently need any doctors myself, I’m very glad there are people out there that can help me when I need it.
I love that hypothetical apocalyptical world were babies apparently don’t exist, and therefore, a large chunk of the deaths that were pervasive in humanity until not too long ago also stopped existing
How is the doctor going to provide any legitimate care that the new technology of the world brings if there is no one to generate the power or source the complex and fragile medications and tools.
Do you think doctors will be administrating epidurals and doing c sections when the works ends? Hell, modern doctors only really work because of an entire industry of health care professionals that support them.
A doctor without pharmacology, engineering, clean rooms, manufacturing facilities, etc. is just a guy who can do first aid (and that’s assuming they worked and studied in a field that would deal with immediate trauma scenarios). Doctors have benefits because they can capitalize on the support system that is international health care.
I have more confidence that an engineer could figure out how to repair, assemble, and operate an MRI machine than a doctor. I also have more confidence in the care that an EMT would provide if I’m lying bleeding.
90 percent of doctors are just dudes who mis diagnose women and minorities and spend most of their time writing prescriptions for tylenol.
When it comes down to what is actually necessary, I think most doctors are not, so if we are ranking professions based on their importance, I would rank the jobs that even enable doctors to do what they do higher.
Also, not to be morbid, but humanity fared pretty well up until now, and for most of the few hundred thousand years we have been around, we handled babies the same way the rest of the animal kingdom did, by just continuing to spit them out and hope for the best.
Hell, the biggest medical advances aren’t even done by doctors they are done by scientists, doctors just apply shit they read out of a book.
lol was your ex a doctor? you’re not wrong that a lot of what we do today is dependent on massive supply chains and the work of vast armies of allied healthcare workers, engineers, scientists, and pharma, but most doctors offer common sense remedies for common ailments and can be as simple as rest and fluids for a cold and heating packs for a sore back. even as someone who did trauma surgery for a while and now does robotic surgery, sure I won’t be able to reconstruct your abdominal wall and safely reroute your intestines without modern anesthesia, ICUs, and antibiotics but even in modern times there are days that consist of hours of scraping old infected wounds, lancing boils/popping pimples, and talking about diet strategies to avoid hemorrhoids.
emts are valuable to stabilize and transport but can’t care for things long term. engineers can build mris but can’t interpret the fuzzy squiggles that pop up on the screen. I can distill my own alcohol for sterilization, hand weave silk/cotton sutures, and sharpen crude scalpels without modern technology. the biggest value I bring is my years of seeing sick people and figuring out what’s actually bothering them without WebMD or ai, even if I don’t have high tech solutions, ruling out the most dangerous potential diagnoses and finding the rare zebras.
edit: I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you’re either very young or very lucky with good health. not that I’m hoping you get sick but eventually all of us end up needing doctors to help us and when you do you’ll see what I mean. even though I don’t currently need any doctors myself, I’m very glad there are people out there that can help me when I need it.