Most of them are NOT scientists.
I think the memorization trick is cute, but I don't consider them my intellectual or scientific equal.
I have had a blood test that red flagged an autoimmune disease and every doctor i have been to ignored it because the basic function tests didnt pick up i had the issue..and it just wasnt one set of doctors. It was every doctor across multiple specialities with different hospital groups. They didnt know what to do with the test. One Dr said..that test is usually ordered just by researcher. So what. It shows a problem
But it turns out the lab was telling them a key point...even to the point where it was spelled out by the lab that it indicates a possible tissue problem in a certain organ. If they just would have ordered an ana reflex titer test i would have been saved months of problems
I am livid and fed up with the medical community
“Most doctors are biology majors that were good at memorizing stuff. Most of them are NOT scientists.”
Interesting that you’d say that. The surgeon who replaced one of my hips in CA — “surgeon to the stars” — said almost the same thing.
He had this humility thing going on and always said he was impressed by Hubby’s work as a physicist. “I just have to learn procedures and do them over and over again. You have to figure out difficult things every day.”
He was world renowned, and invented procedures, tools, and equipment for orthopedic surgery, so I don’t know why he’d be so self deprecating.