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It's moving so fast even doctors(sans oncologists, perhaps?) can't keep up. Brother's been a doctor about 15 years. Huge extended family is aging, and of cour
by silisili 4y ago
It's moving so fast even doctors(sans oncologists, perhaps?) can't keep up.
Brother's been a doctor about 15 years. Huge extended family is aging, and of course cancer creeps in. Of course family members call to get his opinion, and he's been wrong every single time(thankfully). Usually saying something like 'oh, she'll be dead within 2 years' and them living 6, or 8. And in one case calling something a death sentence that was actually, seemingly at least, cured.
It's entirely possible he's just a shit doctor, but I like to think it's that progress has moved a ton since he's studied up on it last.
- inglor_cz 4y agoIt is also notable how doctors can get away with not following the progress in their own field. A programmer who would ignore the developments since 2007 would be unusable.
- thelittleone 4y agoThis 500x.
- viraptor 4y ago"their field" is a fuzzy concept. For example for a GP their field is "medicine". By definition they need to know just enough about everything to direct you to a specialist when needed, but it's simply impossible to be up to date with everything. On the other hand, there's a huge number of consultants for enterprises which still write .net 4 like it's 2008 and they're both happy and productive. Unless they're sent to a training, why bother learning new stuff?
- inglor_cz 4y agoTrue, but a GP shouldn't declare death sentences on their relatives if he is out of his depth in oncology.
- biofox 4y agoI'm still programming in Java like it's 2001. No problems here :)
- Viliam1234 4y agoLucky you! When I see some recent projects using Spring, there is almost no Java code there, mostly very long YML files. The name remains the same, but it is a completely different programming language, if it may still be called so.