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[ponygirl]

Doctors don’t even memorize information anymore. Have you noticed that your doctor never even looks up from their laptop for the whole 5 minutes that you spend with them?

[LadyDoc]

actually doctors did learn to think: Diagnosing people is like being a detective.

But modern docs who follow the rules of evidenced based medicine have to obey the bureaucrats or not get paid.
And paramedics like nurse practitioners often only are taught to follow the flow charts.

So pick an older doc, or a nurse practitioner who worked as a regular nurse for years before she studied to be a nurse practitioner.

[grey_whiskers]

The other half of this is Network TV propaganda like the series House which portrays doctors as selflessly devoted to finding the root cause of a patient's obscure maladies without regards to time or cost, their colleagues' opinions, or "standard of care." Pure Propaganda.