Medical students are among THE most gullible groups of individuals in the world. They have to be. They have to believe everything their professors tell them in order to incorporate a century's worth of information and make it into a useful algorithm. They are firm believers in appeals to authority-that of their professors, and really …
Medical students are among THE most gullible groups of individuals in the world. They have to be. They have to believe everything their professors tell them in order to incorporate a century's worth of information and make it into a useful algorithm. They are firm believers in appeals to authority-that of their professors, and really anyone above them on the pecking order of acquired medical knowledge including interns (shudder), residents and attending physicians. You know the aphorism: Fake it until you make it? That is the motto of every single person involved in learning medicine. This is why you never want to be in a teaching hospital in July of any given year.
This naïf dismisses her parents' collective life experience, deliberative thought processes, belief systems, and sense of personal responsibility for their own decisions. Do you think for a moment that this young fool will respect her patients when the time comes for her to actually practice medicine? This top down authoritarianism has been ingrained in these students from Day #1. They can't help but continue the cycle of abuse. With time most of us learn to break free of this.
I hung up my spurs at the end of 2020 for a variety of reasons. I might have kept going for a little while longer but I could see he writing on the wall. I knew that mandatory jabs were on the way (just like they have been for yearly flu shot). Had I stayed long enough to decline these I would have left under a cloud of disapproval. I might have been reported to the increasingly totalitarian medical boards and had my license suspended. I got out just in time.
What's happened to the medical profession over the past 2 years is as if the majority have reverted to gullible, silly medical school days. Think about that for a moment.
"Find something in life you don't do well. Then don't do that thing." (Quotation marks added) I will henceforth be stealing those words of wisdom every chance I get. So Thank you for that. Secondly...I am adoring this substack platform. So far I have had some mini chats will a few actual 'real' (that word again) famous people. Dr Mike Yeadon comes to mind. Where else in the universe can a regular Joe, or Jane get that experience? And I now have a growing file of Copied and Pasted comments from such interesting people as yourself. Hopefully some couch potato, who has good judgement, is copying and pasting for all he's worth. There are so many interesting and wise and profound and one more...lets see...Amazing people who comment on this platform. Talk about an easy way to make a best seller. I am building that file but not to convert to a book, but because I can not get enough of the wonderful knowledge and perspectives I'm absorbing because of people like you. Did I pour that on too thick?
Thank you for the kind comments. I think what you're alluding to is the collective wisdom i.e. life experience I referenced in my remark- and which young Gabriella in her youthful arrogance dismisses outright.
BTW that quote is from my virtual sigil, The Most Interesting Man In The World. Look up the bit where he delivers that line in his inimitable manner.
Medical students are among THE most gullible groups of individuals in the world. They have to be. They have to believe everything their professors tell them in order to incorporate a century's worth of information and make it into a useful algorithm. They are firm believers in appeals to authority-that of their professors, and really anyone above them on the pecking order of acquired medical knowledge including interns (shudder), residents and attending physicians. You know the aphorism: Fake it until you make it? That is the motto of every single person involved in learning medicine. This is why you never want to be in a teaching hospital in July of any given year.
This naïf dismisses her parents' collective life experience, deliberative thought processes, belief systems, and sense of personal responsibility for their own decisions. Do you think for a moment that this young fool will respect her patients when the time comes for her to actually practice medicine? This top down authoritarianism has been ingrained in these students from Day #1. They can't help but continue the cycle of abuse. With time most of us learn to break free of this.
I hung up my spurs at the end of 2020 for a variety of reasons. I might have kept going for a little while longer but I could see he writing on the wall. I knew that mandatory jabs were on the way (just like they have been for yearly flu shot). Had I stayed long enough to decline these I would have left under a cloud of disapproval. I might have been reported to the increasingly totalitarian medical boards and had my license suspended. I got out just in time.
What's happened to the medical profession over the past 2 years is as if the majority have reverted to gullible, silly medical school days. Think about that for a moment.
Dr. Kranky...First off I have to quote you...
"Find something in life you don't do well. Then don't do that thing." (Quotation marks added) I will henceforth be stealing those words of wisdom every chance I get. So Thank you for that. Secondly...I am adoring this substack platform. So far I have had some mini chats will a few actual 'real' (that word again) famous people. Dr Mike Yeadon comes to mind. Where else in the universe can a regular Joe, or Jane get that experience? And I now have a growing file of Copied and Pasted comments from such interesting people as yourself. Hopefully some couch potato, who has good judgement, is copying and pasting for all he's worth. There are so many interesting and wise and profound and one more...lets see...Amazing people who comment on this platform. Talk about an easy way to make a best seller. I am building that file but not to convert to a book, but because I can not get enough of the wonderful knowledge and perspectives I'm absorbing because of people like you. Did I pour that on too thick?
Thank you for the kind comments. I think what you're alluding to is the collective wisdom i.e. life experience I referenced in my remark- and which young Gabriella in her youthful arrogance dismisses outright.
BTW that quote is from my virtual sigil, The Most Interesting Man In The World. Look up the bit where he delivers that line in his inimitable manner.