Have you ever watched a GP or even worse, a med student, try to explain something as if they were a biologist or a chemist and had the slightest idea what they were talking about?
Is medical practitioner the definitive brainlet occupation?
Have you ever watched a GP or even worse, a med student...
Robert Robinson
Ryder Moore
A large proportion of medical students have a degree in Biology, upwards of 50%
Medicine is structured to engage with patients in education at the 4th grade level.
If a doctor explained to a patient why they went into diabetic ketoacidosis, no doctor would say, "well your lack of insulin has caused your cells to engage in betaoxidation of fatty acids to produce pyruvate to enter glycolysis and produce ATP, but because you are utilizing fatty acids you are causing production of ketone acids that has caused your blood's pH to rise and you're severely dehydrated because free glucose molecules are freely circulating and pulling water from your intracellular space and causing a state of slight crenation. This is why we are giving you lots of IV fluids, this is why you're on an insulin drip to resolve ketoacidosis, this is why I'm monitoring your anion gaps."
Patient's aren't educated, generally. Patient's also generally want to hear this explanation when they are sick.
If your case is different and you're seen as an outpatient, then ask for a thorough explanation or study the mechanisms yourself
Andrew Cruz
Medical students are biologists and 50% chemists. It's part of their lengthy formation.
Judging by your post, I would describe you like pic related
Hudson Carter
They are undergrads not researchers. Big fucking difference, bud.
I'm talking about stuff you can't read in a book.
Logan Perry
No, you don't know what you're talking about
Jason Bell
Yes I do. You are not an active researcher. You are not a scientist. You are a walking encyclopedia. This is fact.
Ethan White
Medfag here, we are taught a lot of physiology in med school without the biological underpinnings. Any medfag or GP that you were conversing with is probably going off of knowledge acquired in their undergrad. That being said we're still smarter than you.
Elijah Thomas
>This is fact.
>what I say is the truth no matter what anyone can say, I know everything!
The worst kind of people
Ryan Scott
No undergraduate has the expertise to speak authoritatively on biology.
Oliver Ramirez
Acidosis leads to your pH sinking. Other than that, nicely explained.
Get off your high horse. I have to have a working understanding and knowledge of all natural sciences. Why would you assume I don't know what I'm talking about? If I don't know specific details I can look them up and incorporate them.