Wonder if there is a study somewhere that concludes that intelligent people such as doctors and surgeons are the first to succumb to propaganda.
The occupation of the highest percentage of professionals in the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party... "Nazis")?
Doctors.
Wonder if there is a study somewhere that concludes that intelligent people such as doctors and surgeons are the first to succumb to propaganda.
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I’ve known a lot of doctors socially through my own golf clubs and the clubs of my friends. Doctors may be brilliant in their chosen fields. but they’re among the worst business people I’ve ever met. I’m always hearing about them getting into financial trouble due to very bad business decisions.
One pediatrician had a wildly successful practice, so much so that he had to hire another doctor to help with all of his patients. He hired a young woman (bad decision #1) not long out of her residency. They started having an affair (bad decision #2) and she persuaded him to let her be the office manager too (bad decision #3) . She drew up a contract for her new position and he signed it without consulting a lawyer (REALLY bad decision #4). Less than a year later, the affair was over and he was very surprised to learn that he had signed his practice over to her and that he was working for her. There was nothing he could do about it, short of leaving the practice and starting over in another town due the non-compete clause she wrote in, and his wife, who was my friend, left him. I suppose I just made a case for the young woman doctor being a good business person, albeit unethical.
Another one invested almost a million dollars renovating an old barn in her town into an event centre for her children to run. After the renovation was completed, they learned that the property wasn’t zoned for that kind of activity and they can’t do anything more than operate a day care centre there. She has lawyers involved NOW but they haven’t been able to get a zoning change so far, primarily because of the traffic burden an event centre would create for the neighbours.