There is no high horse about it. A physician has a lot more rigorous and longer training and expertise than a nurse. It’s the same as saying a plumber has a lot more training and experience with pipes than a carpenter. It is simply a fact
There is no high horse about it. A physician has a lot more rigorous and longer training and expertise than a nurse. It’s the same as saying a plumber has a lot more training and experience with pipes than a carpenter. It is simply a fact
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Perhaps it is more the attitude than the credentials. One can learn more sometimes from people outside a profession or glean a fresh perspective on a problem.
There is also the issue of herd thinking, as opposed to herd immunity. Any professional group, tends to reinforce its own thinking and often violently rejects anything outside its current thinking. As example consider that when the concept of tectonic plates and continental drift was proposed, the idea was not greeted by scientists as an interesting idea, but a threat to their order.
You seem to believe that a human intellect is a standard issue, and all doctors have a superior one because they qualified in their field, however wide or narrow. That's faulty logic, when there are demonstrably better doctors than others. There is no law determining that the highest level of cognitively gifted individuals only become doctors, nor that there can be no other type of person capable of grasping the threat level in this novel situation. It's entirely possible for a well-informed lay person as well as an allied health professional to have a better grasp of their personal health risk of taking an experimental vaccine than a random doctor on the internet.
While your argument is true that MD programs require more training and experience than nursing in various defined areas, the problem here is the arrogant preening and chest-thumping by the very one who should be using clinical examples or citations to make his argument, instead of assertions of intrinsic superiority. The rest of us on the thread already know about the training levels and hence don't really care about it right now. What we want now is solid information about the virus and/or the vaccine, both pros and cons.
There is no chance on earth that these vaccines are going to be a benefit to every person who receives them. That's why adverse effects reporting and "pharmacovigilance" are standard practice in medical R&D. Ergo, there's no use in defending a doctor on an internet chat who is defending his ego around pushing vaccines unless you know him, know his ties to BigTech, BigMed or BigPharma, or why he is doing so.