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>Some engineers may have been raised in an environment of distrust of doctors, or of scorn upon those who call the doctor for anything less than a confirmed bro

• nitrogen 14y ago
  Are you me? It's doubtful ;). One of my parents was a coach when I was young, always complaining about hypochondriac players who were "faking" their injuries just to avoid playing. This same parent still refuses to get treatment for an easily treatable ailment after years of low-level pain and annoyance. As a result, I have an instinct to avoid doctors, and don't really know what requires a doctor and what doesn't. Despite my conscious awareness of this, I still have difficulty overriding the instinct.
  • heretohelp 14y ago
    I have an over-literate under-educated mother who has a home-spun German cure for everything and a grumpy mechanical engineer for a father... ...and I'm a programmer. My parents never took me to the hospital/doctor for anything. This caused problems a couple times, but I was fortunate enough to be an otherwise healthy individual. Pretty strong internal distrust of doctors still, partly because most doctors I've encountered don't seem to understand how to map statistics onto their mental pattern-matchers. I go to a doctor if it might lead to something permanent, otherwise I wait it out.
    • illuminate 14y ago
      "I was fortunate enough to be an otherwise healthy individual." Which is exactly why you think medicine is so close to quackery. You have no need for modern medicine as of right now, it's easy to take it for granted.