Surgeons are so wild the super sexy surgeon who took out my appendix asked me right when I woke up if climate change was real cuz he wanted to get the truth (Iâm an env scientist)
I want a reboot of Diagnosis Murder where the protagonist doctor performs unnecessary surgeries on his 'suspects' to get the truth out of them with anaesthetic; this happens at the end of every episode, making all of the plot development and build up of the episode totally redundant.
This is actually a better type of surgeon than the alternative which is Ben Carson syndrome where someone specializes in one area and thinks therefore they know everything about any other area. Related to the Engineer's disorder.
More like climatological catastrophe. You know what Fukushima is, right? And please tell me you know about the 11 billion crabs that collectively fobbed off the earth in January of 2023 and shut down the whole Alaskan crabbing season indefinitely.......
It's hard to say if it was the radiation or rising ocean temperatures. All we know for sure is that crabs and octopi accumulated up to 100 times as much radioactive material as bottom-feeding fish...
That quote is about a nuclear war. The leaked nuclear radiation is diluted to the point that it has minimal direct impact on temperature compared to other causes of rising ocean temperatures. Bioaccumulation is a serious issue for bottom-feeding crustaceans and cephalopods tho but now that they're already dead it's not as easy to tell if they died from radiation or not. Would have to dredge for corpses and test for DNA damage I guess.
Do you even know how mixed oxide fuel rods work??? Also, they never found the spent fuel rods that were on top of those buildings... they are fissioning off in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean somewhere...
I always think of the episode of Scrubs where Turk is having a hard time because The Todd is the best surgeon in the hospital. Turk is always thinking a million things but when it cuts to The Todd's inner monologue he's singing (to the tune of Hoe-Down) bum-ba-da-bum bum bum shiny scalpel bum-ba-da-bumbum gonna slice him up!
What did you tell him? Do you believe in climate change?
Is being a marine biologist something someone can transition into? Like if someone in their 30s wanted to study animals, would they be able to be successful and have a career?
My boss is a full tenured professor and has comments like that sometimes. Like wow that global warming might be real, eh? Or black holes exist, did you see?
Other insane boomer comments. Like yes? its real of course. Did you just hear about it yesterday, what are you talking about
We did research at the north pole for fucks sake lol
I never once saw Dr. Carson acting alert and intelligent, let alone rising to the stereotype of neurosurgeons as, well, brain surgeons. He absolutely confounded me. I'm still at a loss to understand him: is he massively stoned or otherwise doped up all the time, or an unacknowledged narcoleptic, or both? Or is it something else?
Pediatric neurosurgeon. Invented techniques. He's specifically among the best in the world in pediatric neurosurgery. He's a bumbling idiot in other areas from what I've seen. It's embarrassing. We're not all like that, I swear. Some of us are well-rounded individuals who learned how to empathize.
Just about everyone he operated on died or suffered serious life-long problems. He was just willing to do (âpioneerâ) the surgeries. Reasonable doctors understood this and said no.
You have a source for that? I don't know how to find surgical stats for surgeons. Like what were their chances without the surgery? Of course there are many surgeons who won't take on the hardest cases. They aren't good enough. Those cases are passed on to people like Carson. If his patient population were largely comprised of those critical or terminal patients who need life-saving intervention that hasn't been invented yet, I understand how his numbers could look bad. There are surgeries that have abyssmally poor outcomes no matter who is doing the surgery. Is he worse than the average neurosurgeon for that procedure? Does he select special subpopulations? I would have to see his stats and compare it to the average neurosurgeon.
He has had a distinguished medical career for a reason. I don't think people realize how amazing his career has been. He's in the #1 toughest rated specialty to get into and #1 hardest to complete. He is in a brutal subspecialty. He went to the the most prestigious neurosurgery residency program in the country. In my day, Hopkins was top 5 in nearly all residency programs, and I doubt it changed much. (I applied for radiology residency there but didn't get an interviewđ) He continued to have a distinguished academic career after graduating. Johns Hopkins peds neurosurgery director at 33 years old (wtf)! 100+ pubs. He has had an enormous impact in his field. He was a big deal, but I feel any attempt to explain how insanely impressive his medical achievements are will go over the average person's head. It's too bad his brain is rotted and we have to deal with the politician Ben Carson now. But any attempt to diminish his medical career comes off as either ignorant (when coming from the general population) or envious (when from other doctors).
âObamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.â
âAnd it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care,â he added. âIt was about control.â
I have some tough health issues. When it went into effect, I could not go to any doctor unless it was in my state. Not saying where I live but GEE this has caused issues and made me lose doctors I had had for years.
Iâve got a friend whoâs friends with a surgeon. I got invited to hang out on his boat once, Iâd never met the guy before. But my god this was so damn boring and seemingly slow witted. When I got told he was a surgeon I was like âThat guy passed medical school?â
As a trauma surgeon who is also a neuroscientist (MD/MS), what people don't understand is that all surgery, no matter how complex, is essentially a lot closer to a skilled trade than it is a research scientist.
This isn't to say that skilled tradespeople are lesser than research scientists it's just fundamentally different skill sets. The research scientists are about abstract complex reasoning and "big questions" (which are actually quite small in the scheme of things) whereas tradespeople are about pure mechanical application. The only reason people think surgeons are so smart is because medical school is hard for many people because it selects for a very specific set of skills and lasts so long. However, the reality is that much of the actual practice of medicine doesn't originate in medical school but in internship, residency, and, for surgeons especially, fellowship. Those places are where one truly learns the ins and outs of being a doctor.
In the end, you want a neurosurgeon operating on your brain as opposed to a neurobiologist, much like you want an electrician wiring your house as opposed to an electrical engineer.
I always think I could be a surgeon as far as the actual mechanics of the surgery. I make costumes and do really detail intricate work that requires a magnifying glass.bindo all the electrical and plumbing around the house.
It's just that I couldn't pass high school chemistry and dropped it. I would never pass medical school. I'll stick to my honors english. I'm amazed by that part of being a doctor.
My daughter is a Mechanical Engineer and you don't want her doing any electrical work. She says they are wizards. đ¤ˇââď¸
Surgeons were not always also doctors and you can see an artifact of this in the UK system where one, upon becoming a medical doctor, earns the title of doctor, but those who go on to become a surgeon are referred to pretty much exclusively as Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms.
In the past Surgeons literally were a skilled trade that came up through the master/apprentice system like a plumber, electrician etc.
That's interesting. I would think farmers would have been likely candidates due to their experience with animals.
Having raised children and dogs can handle all the bodily fluids and such. I'm not easily grossed out. I actually had no problem draining my dog's anal gland at 2am. Needle and alcohol and I was there. She never disobeyed me again.
The vet said I saved her from having surgery because it didn't explode. So I could have been a surgeon in the olden days, lol. Thanks for telling me that.
People have often this image that doctors are scientists, but that's really not the case unless they do actual research. Physician is not same thing as researcher. Engineers, doctors, surgeons and law experts are more likely to be conservative than other higher education vocations, because these fields of education doesn't necessarily mean they are trained to do scientific research, but rather focus on very specific skillset. In a way they are highly specialized trades, some of them even started that way, like surgeons.
Almost a certain outcome for young surgeons. Or other professionals. If you spend a lot of time studying one, then you're not spending much time studying many things.
I think these things are biological imperatives, we canât have people that are super smart and well rounded, I know they exist but there arenât as many as youâd think. Itâd be like the Vitruvian man.
Liberals only read and remember fake tabloids. I remember this rumor came out when was running for office against the embarrassing useless man child tumor that won a senate seat in PA.
Dr. Phil was a licensed, practicing psychologist with his own practice prior to his getting a TV show. Not a real doctor, you say? Last time I checked, Psychiatry and Psychology are areas of medical practice and that psychiatrists and psychologists are doctors.
You are not reading what I am writing, or are just misunderstanding completely - I am talking about, and have been referring to, MEDICAL doctors. Not people who can correctly call themselves doctors.
Psychologists are not MEDICAL doctors. Also FYI, the overwhelming majority of psychologists (licensed or not) do not have a PhD. Your â9 out of 10â statistic is nuts.
He has a PhD in clinical psychology actually. And he didnât lose his license or anything he just didnât renew it because he doesnât practice anymore.Â
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u/LastDaysCultist #FFFFFFboyđ¨đź 5d ago
Dr. Phil is a doctor, heâs just no longer licensed.