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solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who teaches chemistry to premeds, this is not surprising at all. To make a swing generalization, premeds, med students, and the MDs they become are done if the most entitled, condescending, and obvious people I’ve ever met.

  There are exceptions of course, but in general, I can’t stand most premeds or how our culture puts MDs on a pedestal.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yea, a friend of mine from high school went through all of it and became a general surgeon. and i’ve heard stories. that and my experience from dating and living with a CFer lung transplant patient probably gave me as much of an “outsider’s view” of the medical/hospital industry as one could possibly have

    the MD=pedestal thing died for me long ago

    i know i’m not talking about the “point” of the post. don’t care.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So I’m curious. The way I see it, the actual practicing of medicine doesn’t advance the field itself. What advances it is research and development. Do the researchers actually go though med school or is that path more like biology PhD, chemistry PhD, etc?

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are medical researchers that have MD’s, but they are not practicing physicians (usually). There are MD/PhD programs that are aimed toward medical research fields (usually with the PhD being in biology or chemistry as you mentioned), and lots of biological and biomedical engineers working on certain medical fields as well (especially using stem cells and other chemical cues to regrow tissues). So yeah, biology- and physiology-adjacent sciences are where most of the actual advances are happening.

      Actually practicing medicine is basically like being a mechanic that specializes in keeping one particularly poorly designed piece of equipment running.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So was a wrong, most researchers go through MD/PhD programs? Like what percent of researchers go through medical school? 50/50?

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• Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hardly the point

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We all understand the point. But it’s important to question the source. It suggests a gullability, or fabrication.

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• Adkml@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was probablly just a list of 20 humanities electives they had to pick 4 of for gen Ed requirements (not say9ng this is a bad thing maybe if there was more of this 1/4 of every engineering class wouldn’t go straight to Lockheed martin)

  They’re supposed to be less rigorous and a little more general than other courses, this is really grasping at straws for a reason to ignore the point being made.

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• Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There might have been a less than clear course description. Also, it may have been the lack of sleep.

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