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Not sure whether docs generally make better, same or worse businessmen, but my experience with medical training taught me to question everything rather than to
by stillbreathing 13y ago
Not sure whether docs generally make better, same or worse businessmen, but my experience with medical training taught me to question everything rather than to encourage overconfidence. There's certainly value in artificial confidence in medicine as it applies to most patients, who aren't knowledgeable or alert enough to distill information like you may be able to.
- dmfdmf 13y ago> medical training taught me to question everything... Certainly this has value but the ability to question everything in an intelligent way is not generalizable. By that I mean that the training in med school includes a huge context of medical knowledge not just this method. The danger and error that I see is that many docs think the method is sufficient without out the context. > There's certainly value in artificial confidence in medicine as it applies to most patients... I get it and understand the need. However, in my experience the eventual dupe of the con is not the patient but the doc. I have seen it often enough that it is my default assumption though I have met some good people who happen to be doctors who have not fallen into that trap.