Says he went into medicine to help people

>says he went into medicine to help people

I approached [the Dean of the Medical School at McGill] for help in entering the medical school there, when in 1945 the atomic bomb unexpectedly put an end to the war and to my four-month old career in the Canadian Infantry. The Army very wisely decided to get rid of such green recruits as soon as possible, and so we all again found ourselves quite unexpectedly in charge of our own lives. I had graduated in engineering earlier that year but had already decided against that career. The Dean greeted me very cordially and assured me that there was a great need for technically trained doctors. But, he said, seating me next to him, first tell me a little about yourself. Did you ever have any interest in botany, say, or biology? Well, not really, I had to admit. How about chemistry - Oh, I hated that course. And so it went. After a while he said, "Well, is it maybe that you want to do good for humanity?" And then, while I was coughing in embarrassment, he went on, "Because they make the worst doctors." I thanked him, and as I walked out of his door I knew that I would start afresh and with God's grace try and become a mathematician.

doing it for a different reason is a MISTAKE

If people become doctors to help other people why are there so many doctors who are assholes who seemingly don't give a damn and just try to get the patient out as soon as possible?

It's all about the money.

Everyone is gonna lie about it. Everyone's gonna go on and on about how they love helping people. That's what people want to hear. That's what the medical schools want to hear.

Yet the high $/h lifestyle specialties are always the most competitive ones. You have to be a special kind of masochist to want into shit like surgery. Ask your doc if he'd still show up for work if his earnings were suddenly capped at $40k/year.

Doctors are fucking sociopaths. They learn those skills in the medical school that trains them. They learn to lie and deceive patients and their professors. "Wow Dr. user is so humane!" says the patient as the doc charges them fucktons of money for a 15-min consult with more retards in the pipeline. "What specialty are you going into ?" Whatever fucking specialty YOU went into, fuckface! They fall for it, too!

Medical school takes idealistic students and transforms them into jaded, regurgitating babies with licenses to kill.

These are people who no doubt would rather follow an algorithm like a machine than actually talk to you and empathize like an actual human being. Telling your doctor what's happening? You bet your ass he's running a highly efficient and well-sharpened pattern matching algorithm on the keywords you're saying, decoding them into symptoms and their associated data such as quality and timing. He's going to compare that shit to a mental database of disease presentation patterns. The faster he accomplishes this, the faster he can tell you what you need to do to solve it so that you can get the fuck out of the room, making way for the next patient.

Whatever empathy he had in his brain was likely crushed years ago by his the overwhelming drudgery of medical training. Everybody goes in saying "man how cool it'll be to help people" by 3rd year they're fantasizing about all the money they'll probably make because it's the only thing that keeps them going.

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>>>/kys/please

There are lots of ways to help people. Ideally, a doctor would want to help people and ALSO be really interested in Biology.

When will technology render doctors obsolete?

Because that lasts until you want to go outside and eat a sandwich or something but you have to tell an 8 year olds mom why his breath stinks instead