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> Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, no knowledge of anything real world other than your job, are not qualities of "regular educated people". Actually they are, your s

> Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, no knowledge of anything real world other than your job, are not qualities of "regular educated people". Actually they are, your statement applies to any one of the examples I gave you of what society considers successful/prestigious careers. Silicon Valley is the poster child for stimulant and hallucinogen use/abuse, are they not similarly regular educated people? > Just because it's common for celebrities and kids of rich people to do drugs and screw around Where are you getting the idea that it's only common amongst celebrities and kids of rich people? > They are modern qualities of the loud morality failed majority these days. I don't even know what "loud morality failed majority" means but morality (particularly your personal definition of it) =/= professional competency. The disconnect here seems to be your expectations (and definition of morality but that's a separate point). Your parents, and you, seem to be unaware of how common stimulant, alcohol and drug use is amongst white-collar professionals. Sorry to disappoint but as a group physicians are no different. This has no relevance on professional competency. Fun fact for you the "fathers of modern medicine" who have all the diseases named after them and designed the residency education system were all overt cocaine addicts, thats part of why the hours are so long. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828946/

talldatethrow 3y ago
Jesus man. I understand that degenerate behavior is common in today's doctors. That was my entire point of the original post. Otherwise what would I really be saying? That I knew ONE almost drug addict doctor that looks forward to her next festival? Obviously one of everything exists. My point about celebrities and rich famous people was that they normalized it, to the point that you aren't even surprised doctors are druggies in their free time. No one cars that some Uber programmer is on speed. More people would care to know that their doctor that recommends heart pressure medication is a druggy, because they'd know this personal doesn't really care about potential kidney damage in themselves, so of course they'll recommend you take kidney damaging heart medication without really explaining that that's what is happening. If you left the SV and internet bubble, you'd learn that drug use and alcohol use is not liked by most in their higher level professionals.

talldatethrow 3y ago

Jesus man. I understand that degenerate behavior is common in today's doctors. That was my entire point of the original post. Otherwise what would I really be saying? That I knew ONE almost drug addict doctor that looks forward to her next festival? Obviously one of everything exists. My point about celebrities and rich famous people was that they normalized it, to the point that you aren't even surprised doctors are druggies in their free time. No one cars that some Uber programmer is on speed. More people would care to know that their doctor that recommends heart pressure medication is a druggy, because they'd know this personal doesn't really care about potential kidney damage in themselves, so of course they'll recommend you take kidney damaging heart medication without really explaining that that's what is happening. If you left the SV and internet bubble, you'd learn that drug use and alcohol use is not liked by most in their higher level professionals.