Honestly I think schools these days are a test of patience and a test of playing social games. Not intelligence.
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Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Is she actually MD?
…that is scary.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She’s been out of school for too long. She probably a GP, which has a wealth of knowledge on all subjects but very little specific knowledge. Ask experts, not unqualified quacks.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
She’s actually an ENT, but it really doesn’t matter what your specialty is. Mnra vaccines are new enough that unless you are actively researching them or are in a specialty like infections disease, most MD’s aren’t really going to be very familiar with them.
I specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation, I know about bones, joints and the things that connect to bones and joints… If anyone asks me about vaccines I’m going to refer them to someone who actually really knows what they’re talking about.
I don’t trust the vaccines because I went to med school. I trust the vaccines because my colleagues in infectious disease trust the vaccines and this is what they do all day.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bang on. Grifters go around finding someone who will agree with their grift. They didn’t ask any doctor, they asked one who would agree with them.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I’m in my late 30s and feel that way about the schools I went to. I studied chemistry and while some of the material was good most of my grades were about teacher pleasing and completing arbitrary assignments. They cared more about layout and formatting than about actual content.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Absolutely. Universities went from institution that’s taught you how to think outside the box to a place that teaches you how to fill positions at a lab/office/whatever. They don’t want you inventing the future, they want you filling their prescriptions or fixing their phones. It might lead into the old adage that those who don’t know how to do, teach? I don’t buy that, but still…
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Think that entirely depends on the school/program
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you pay a University enough money, they’ll give you any title or degree you want.
Case in point, Trump has an economics degree from Wharton.
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Sort of. I got a biology degree which meant I spent a lot of time in and out of class with “pre med” students. It was a program my school was known for and significant portion of the student population. Of the 100 or so students I saw daily my senior year more than half are now doctors. And about of quarter of them do shit like this.
They aren’t dumber or richer than anyone else, they just realized that you can gather a very large pile of money by selling bullshit to rubes.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yeah like where is her degree from? They should be ashamed.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
profile.tmb.state.tx.us/PublicProfile.aspx?7471e1…
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do you call a med student that got a 1.5 GPA?
Doctor
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Doctor”?
I think you mean “GP”, as in “general practitioner.”
Don’t being the PhDs into this. Captain Holt would not approve.
youtu.be/1BCXJ3yC65o
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Interesting. Do your general practicioners not have doctorates? I wonder what that D stands for in the MD behind her name…
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ofc they do. But the specifier matters.
For instance, would you disagree that the “therapist” part of the title seems a tad less important when there’s something like “orgone” preceding it? Changes the nature, the credibility of what comes after it, no?
I’m not saying medical doctors are into any sort of pseudoscience, but we are joking about how badly trained and seemingly unintelligent some of them are. And pointing out “general practitioner” also shows that the doctor didn’t specialise, which sometimes is because of lack of ability.
In Finnish a health clinic is “terveyskeskus”, “health central”, but a lot of people have come to call them “arvauskeskus” ~ “guessing central”.
The people who actually excel at med schools rarely get stuck at that level and most of the doctors there are like late 20’s without experience or specialisation and the “intellectual rigour” they put into their work is… unimpressive, at best.
It’s more like they’re using a flow chart for every single thing and can’t understand a word you’re saying.