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> Is being a doctor hard? I have a friend who is a surgeon who says he hardly uses anything he learned in medical school and that he could teach a carpenter to
by jeffreyrogers 6y ago
> Is being a doctor hard?
I have a friend who is a surgeon who says he hardly uses anything he learned in medical school and that he could teach a carpenter to do his job. (I think he is exaggerating a bit, but it's a funny anecdote).
- 908B64B197 6y agoSurgery is very specialized knowledge. I'm sure he's using the fundamentals he learned in med school more than he thinks, but yeah everything in psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics most likely not.
- SkyPuncher 6y agoMy wife is a physician, but not a surgeon. Most of medicine is relatively routine. A surgeon's skill isn't so much in the 99% of cases, but the 1% that have adverse outcomes. More importantly, their skill comes in identifying the possibility of adverse outcomes and preventing them from ever happening. Me and you could easily be taught to do a routine surgery, like an appendectomy. However, we wouldn't be able to identify if something requires more treatment or prevent a patient from dying if things don't go perfect.
- nullspace 6y agoIsn't it very similar for programmers? I don't get paid >100k for knowing how to create a button with boostrap and jQuery, but rather for the 1% of the time where I need to do something 1000x more complicated
- SkyPuncher 6y agoYes. It's the same for a lot of fields.