you can live with it and not understand it, but you can also understand it and not be able to empathize what its like to live with it. This statement sucks no matter how you look at it.
How long do you think doctors get to learn about diseases. It doesn’t seem farfetched for a newly graduated doctor to have only had a 1 hour lecture on a disease, probably split over multiple ones. Plus some self studying. So if they never encountered it in real life afterwards, it doesn’t seem too wrong, does it?
You’re basically correct, but with a caveat or two. Disease tend to boil down to only a few basic etiologies: cancers = improperly dividing cells, autoimmune = body attacking itself, etc. There’s a LOT of specific diseases out there, and the mind is finite. We discreetly go around the corner to check references (hopefully not Google) on our phones ALL THE TIME in the medical community, MDs to RNs. We might not know your exact symptoms off the top of our head, but even that varies from patient to patient within a single diagnosis. That’s part of why a face to face consult is so important, and assuming that a doctor asking questions about your condition is ignorance is probably (usually) wrong… Also, I had a patient last week explain to me that high-voltage power lines cause cancer, and as a survivor of breast cancer, she was more knowledgeable about this than I was, so… It goes both ways sometimes.
I started typing out a reply to this, but I honestly can’t tell if you actually believe these things are equivalent or not. Either way, the answer to your musing is: people? probably, the FAA? no, they don’t…
Go read up on what’s involved. It helps if you know a doc personally.
I’ve had docs ask me if I was a med student just because I paid attention to what was going on and gently corrected when their diagnosis contradicted their own testing a few minutes before.
you can live with it and not understand it, but you can also understand it and not be able to empathize what its like to live with it. This statement sucks no matter how you look at it.
Yeah, the tweet’s take is way too polarized. A one hour lecture? C’mon…
How long do you think doctors get to learn about diseases. It doesn’t seem farfetched for a newly graduated doctor to have only had a 1 hour lecture on a disease, probably split over multiple ones. Plus some self studying. So if they never encountered it in real life afterwards, it doesn’t seem too wrong, does it?
You’re basically correct, but with a caveat or two. Disease tend to boil down to only a few basic etiologies: cancers = improperly dividing cells, autoimmune = body attacking itself, etc. There’s a LOT of specific diseases out there, and the mind is finite. We discreetly go around the corner to check references (hopefully not Google) on our phones ALL THE TIME in the medical community, MDs to RNs. We might not know your exact symptoms off the top of our head, but even that varies from patient to patient within a single diagnosis. That’s part of why a face to face consult is so important, and assuming that a doctor asking questions about your condition is ignorance is probably (usually) wrong… Also, I had a patient last week explain to me that high-voltage power lines cause cancer, and as a survivor of breast cancer, she was more knowledgeable about this than I was, so… It goes both ways sometimes.
i wonder if people expect pilots to know every single error checklist…
I started typing out a reply to this, but I honestly can’t tell if you actually believe these things are equivalent or not. Either way, the answer to your musing is: people? probably, the FAA? no, they don’t…
Yea, that’s usually only true about specific medications shittier docs will randomly start pushing on their patients.
Go read up on what’s involved. It helps if you know a doc personally.
I’ve had docs ask me if I was a med student just because I paid attention to what was going on and gently corrected when their diagnosis contradicted their own testing a few minutes before.
Docs are human too.