Ms. Adler said she was inspired by her freshman study abroad in Africa. “I didn’t want to waste a class on physics, or waste a class on orgo,” she said. “The social determinants of health are so much more pervasive than the immediate biology of it.”
She added that her parents, however, were “thrilled when I decided to go the M.D. route, because they were worried about my job security.”
Oh dear God, we’re boned.
Translation: I'm going to nag the shit out of you to live the lifestyle that I demand. Screw science, what matters is what feeeeeeeeeeeels like the right thing to do.
That could be the dumbest thing I have ever seen put together in a single sentence. And, that's saying something, because I read a lot.
She's saying "science" doesn't matter in medicine, just the social outcome - that's some powerful stupid, right there.