why am i supposed to be impressed by people who can rote learn some diseases and their symptoms which can easily be found on the internet? i haven't been to the doctors for like 10 years and i'm completely fine so what is even their point?

also if you notice there are a lot of females that become doctors which tells you that it's not exactly an intellectually demanding discipline with the general rule being when in school if there are a lot of girls in your class then it's not a hard course, i.e physics and mathematics have literally 2 girls each cohort

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Depends op - if your life is at risk then a good doctor /surgeon can literally save your life.
Even a family doctor can be a life saver if they're smart enough to recognize something that's easily missed. You might be surprised.

lol you have no idea..

Fuk em

I respects surgeons - the rest of them have been made obsolete by Wikipedia

I have worked in healthcare for decades and hate doctors.

I think most are stupid, just go to the first explanation they can think of, or charlatans.

why can't u all just put some respek on other ppl and respek yourself at the same time. penitentiary rules in effekt

give ur respek and also demand your respek at the same time, ya feel?

Sick is the mind of the motherfukkin kid that's behind

being a doctor does not require any intelligence more than memory.

Scientists are the real great minds that help push humanity forward.

Doctors are parasites that make money off of sick people.
I have seen absolute morons become doctors. Some of the diagnoses I have seen them give were ridiculous.

The only doctors I can respect are surgeons - I see them as plumbers, electricians, etc. Good with their hands.

lawyers, doctors, and dentists are the top 3 most vile professions in the US.

lol wait till OP is sick and he goes running to the doc.

the amount of tests you have to take makes sure atleast 90% of doctors have their **** together

yeah, surgeons are a cut above these bumass gpson the subject of healthcare workers, what's up with nurses and their profession signalling by wearing scrubs in public? these guys have to handle bed pans and stick cathodes into people's diks and shiet so i don't know why try to show off what their job isoh absolutely dude, you couldn't be more right

morons who have phDs from the hardest and most prestigious universities in the world in arguably the hardest subjects? who are able to treat and help millions of people every day?
is it so hard to just respect those jobs? so only people who are good with their hands are the ones who get your respect?

you're an idiot lol. Simple.

I respect some specialists in some diseases where there are no known cures. Anyone who actually works their ass off to improve the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses gets my vote. Pretty rare though in my experience.

They have the highest IQ average amongst any profession. It's extremely competitive to get into medical school, arguably more than any other academic profession. Google your way out of your brain tumor or stroke etc. etc. The one time you need a doctor, you'll be glad that guy went through 10+ years of academic and clinical work to be able to help you. There are limitations in medicine based on the current understanding of medical research. The wikipedia aspect of criticism can be said for any career. We are all learning other peoples research at the end of the day. Engineers are learning from professors and books that were compiled by research conducted by thousands of professionals over the years. The purpose of medical school and residency is to train someone to be able to integrate that information and to apply what is most important at the appropriate times. If you have this logic of criticism for medical professionals, that same logic can be applied to almost any career path. The medical doctor isn't so much paid for his sheer knowledge but rather the art of being able to make sense of that knowledge because research is always adding to the medical sciences. You are a lifelong student in essence. So you have to have a deep understanding of the specific field you are in - in order to keep adapting and making sense of new research or even being a part of that new research. Like an ER patient that walks in with symptoms of a stroke - you have seconds to decide what to do otherwise that patient will die or will have permanent neurological consequences. You can't wikipedia yourself out of that situation. Stereotyping a general surgeon as the only doctor of praise is complete bull**** too. He wouldn't know what surgery he was doing if it wasn't for the team of various doctors that referred the patient to the stage of needing surgery in the first place. It's 2017. Very rarely is one discipline of medicine completely managing a critically ill patient. Being in the career, I respect the general practioners the most who have to have acumen to be able to distinguish between someone who has a benign vs serious-life threatening illness when any vague symptom to could mean anything. Good fatigue, you can have differentials ranging from simple lack of sleep or nutrional deficiencies all the way to leukemias and various other carcinomas. You need extensive training to be able to prevent a serious disorder from reaching it's full potential.

Came to post "In b4 Cytomegalovirus" but he already beat me.

In after CMV.

ok maybe respect is the wrong word, we should all respect people for working honest jobs but being a doctor is not impressive in the least despite all the adoration this profession gets, like i said a lot of women become doctors so having 'phDs from the hardest and most prestigious universities in the world in arguably the hardest subjects' is a lot of reaching on your part

firstly, cringe at the profession signalling in your avi, i'm not impressed

secondly, brain tumours are dealt with by specialist not gps, all these bums do is refer

didn't read the rest becuase no doubt it would have been some self aggradising essay

I mean, my Porsche is optioned quite well. lolXlol

I respect everyone. I don't blindly take anyone's advice anymore though, especially not a stranger

I only go to the doc when I need some short term pain killers or for blood work to diagnose myself.

I usually bring up whatever symptoms in experiencing and ask them to run certain tests to identify what I'm struggling with. Pure self diagnosis I leave nothing in their hands

I'm not a smartass and I'm not saying I know more than them. But it's my body and I trust my gut. I can do a better job of guessing what's wrong than they can, I live in this meat wagon

I absolutely do not care for check ups. I'm good I can check my own balls periodically.

repped. made same observation. gotta stick to engineering boyo

I wonder OP, how much do you make? What's your salary? I can't imagine that you'd be an unsuccessful cuck if you're berating physicians and saying that it's not an intellectually demanding discipline.Engineers are funny, because at the end of their career they don't make as much money as a general practitioner's starting salary.

i work in retail fyiengineering is a derivative of physics and maths so your profession is definitely to be respected

I guess folding clothes at the GAP for $8 an hour is more intellectually demanding than being a physician.

obviously not, i just never felt the need to be a tryhard like Cytomegalovirus and become a doctor to show off, i'm comfortable with myself and my superior intellectdoes that make you feel good about yourself? you're so cool dude, ugh

Nurse checking in. Wearing your scrubs in public is a hazard to public health. I work with a huge variety of patients, some of which are in isolation. Like fuk if I'm going to stop by the supermarket and rub VRE/MRE/CRE/ESBL/pickyourbacteria all over the store. Fkn gross and they should be ashamed of themselves if it's after their shift (totally acceptable in clean scrubs before you go into the hospital)

That aside, sometimes your nurse is the one who saves you from the MD in the hospital. Like any profession you will have high quality, mediocre, and straight up dangerous MDs that should have retired...Just lol @ your whole post. Seriously. Are you just against general practitioners, or all MDs? Because your answer will probably drive my next question...

Yeah I felt great googling to find that gif, and I'll feel great when I google what to do tomorrow when I see my patients too man. Then I'll get in my Porsche, then Google my way to my house.

Most people don't respect things that they don't endure (medical school) or understand (medicine). Only a complete imbecile would think that physicians and Wikipedia are interchangeable.

Not respecting doctors, people thinking they know better because they read some **** on google etc. = massive signs that someone is well below average intelligence

Just from personal experience