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Call me crazy but software engineers are over paid. All they do is Google for answers on stack overflow and copy and paste the code. You used to need highly int

by jac241 6y ago

Call me crazy but software engineers are over paid. All they do is Google for answers on stack overflow and copy and paste the code. You used to need highly intelligent engineers who could hold all the APIs in their head at a minimum. Now you can just Google for the documentation.

husarcik 6y ago
As someone who is getting their MD next year, I'd have to agree with jac241. It took me a weekend to understand and setup a kubernetes cluster yet it's taken me three years to even know the bare basics of medicine. Maybe it's a situation of you don't know what you don't know. Sure, you can Google symptoms but have you seen thousands of patients to know if you're right? On the tech side, I know how to setup a kubernetes cluster but do I know what to do when things go wrong? Most likely not.
- jac241 6y ago
  M2 here. This site never gives doctors the benefit of the doubt and has some of the worst takes on the profession. Every thread where physicians get brought up you can count on someone saying they're overpaid, can EASILY be replaced by a google search, are using the AMA to limit the supply of doctors, etc. The AMA can't even prevent nurse practitioners from getting full practice authority to use their 500 hours of training to harm patients, how exactly are they limiting supply. For a site and a profession that values data and research so much, a lot of people on this site do zero research on the US and other countries' healthcare systems, how physicians and midlevels get paid, what factors are increasing healthcare costs before denigrating physicians as greedy and useless. People just have no idea what goes into training a physician. Even after 2 full years of studying medicine I feel like I don't know anything, the field is that huge. I assume some of the bad takes are due to most people on this site being young and only ever interfacing with the healthcare system whenever they get strep throat. Sure someone can Google that you need to treat strep throat with antibiotics (maybe they'll even pick the right one!), but make sure to warn them about post strep glomerulonephritis. Oh what's that, and why do I need to warn them about that and not rheumatic fever...
  - husarcik 6y ago
    Yeah, I've definitely seen that on HN and it can be very frustrating that's for sure. Unless you've been in the system, it is very hard to understand why some things are the way they are. Side note: I hope your second year is going well. I know they've had a lot of changes for USMLE because of coronavirus. Stay safe, and feel free to reach out if you ever have questions about med school or just want to chat. :)

by jac241 6y ago

husarcik 6y ago

As someone who is getting their MD next year, I'd have to agree with jac241. It took me a weekend to understand and setup a kubernetes cluster yet it's taken me three years to even know the bare basics of medicine. Maybe it's a situation of you don't know what you don't know. Sure, you can Google symptoms but have you seen thousands of patients to know if you're right? On the tech side, I know how to setup a kubernetes cluster but do I know what to do when things go wrong? Most likely not.

jac241 6y ago
M2 here. This site never gives doctors the benefit of the doubt and has some of the worst takes on the profession. Every thread where physicians get brought up you can count on someone saying they're overpaid, can EASILY be replaced by a google search, are using the AMA to limit the supply of doctors, etc. The AMA can't even prevent nurse practitioners from getting full practice authority to use their 500 hours of training to harm patients, how exactly are they limiting supply. For a site and a profession that values data and research so much, a lot of people on this site do zero research on the US and other countries' healthcare systems, how physicians and midlevels get paid, what factors are increasing healthcare costs before denigrating physicians as greedy and useless. People just have no idea what goes into training a physician. Even after 2 full years of studying medicine I feel like I don't know anything, the field is that huge. I assume some of the bad takes are due to most people on this site being young and only ever interfacing with the healthcare system whenever they get strep throat. Sure someone can Google that you need to treat strep throat with antibiotics (maybe they'll even pick the right one!), but make sure to warn them about post strep glomerulonephritis. Oh what's that, and why do I need to warn them about that and not rheumatic fever...
- husarcik 6y ago
  Yeah, I've definitely seen that on HN and it can be very frustrating that's for sure. Unless you've been in the system, it is very hard to understand why some things are the way they are. Side note: I hope your second year is going well. I know they've had a lot of changes for USMLE because of coronavirus. Stay safe, and feel free to reach out if you ever have questions about med school or just want to chat. :)