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Rant: Medical Doctors 

Why does society put doctors on a pedestal?

In my experience, they are just regurgitation machines who lack critical thinking skills. Maybe this is just a UK thing but the number of stupid doctors I've seen is outstanding and they think that just because they have a medical degree they immediately known what is wrong with somebody, refusing to look at the latest research and other factors. They literally think the same way as those "AI" expert systems from the 80s written in prolog. In fact, I'd say those are probably better since they never forget and can be updated whereas the doctors forget a lot over time and can't consistently make the same diagnosis given the same data.

Here is a summary of my last two doctor interactions:

#1
Me: has rare condition
Doctor during a general checkup : gets a lot of details wrong about my condition and what it does
Me: points this out
Doctor: DiD YOu gO ToMeDiCAl scHOOl?

#2
Me: has trouble breathing and get 89-92% SpO2 for whole night
*goes to see a doctor in the morning*
Doctor: that's perfectly within range
Me: shows first result on google showing that it's not the case
Doctor: Google didn't go to medical school
Me: searches for research papers supporting my statement
Doctor: no, no, your values are perfectly within range, don't believe everything you read, studies might be biased
Me: *contemplates how this woman got so far in life*

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