Becoming a doctor isn't a matter of being smart. Its a matter of showing up and paying attention

>engineer makes a mistake
>plants go boom or people die with their faces melted
I wonder if the story of the engineer who sent a cleaning crew in a tank that was used to contain acid and forgot to tell them to not take their regular cleaning products is true of just a scary tale engineering teachers like to tell

They have the same mean because the tests are designed to have the same mean for each gender.

Oh yeah and I'm a doctor and I do have to say that you need some smarts to do it, not only because your capacity for retaining information is highly dependent on your ability to make sense of it, which is basically your intelligence, but also because the real world is never exactly like in the books and you need to know how to combine your book smarts with your intuition and common sense. Perhaps for being an orthopedist you don't need to be so smart (in the U.S. perhaps to achieve the necessary score), to be a well-rounded internist you definitely need to be pretty smart.

But I have noticed here and in real life that lots of people are salty that you are a doctor. Now if I was just going to tell somebody out of context or telling a girl expecting she would be attracted to me based on me being a doctor then I could 100% understand the salt. But enough people just apparently feel such a status disparity that their territorial-monkey mind seems to be forced to react. It's tiresome.

Try being a neurosurgeon faggot.

Almost certainly not true since those cleaners need to have all kinds of certifications, often wear SCBAs and *usually* aren't idiots.

You have to be smart to get into med school

>Be neurosurgeon
>Perform 40 ulnar decompressions (or any other highly specific and routine procedure) a week
>Refer to a different surgeon for literally any other complaint
Sounds pretty easy actually.

>rely on nurses
holy fuck, you don't believe this do you? nurses are dangerous af. i am triggered.

but yes, mds are glorified technicians

t. mdphd student

Not the person you're replying too but this coyld only be the case in one of the few highly populated cities of the countries. Most areas only have one or two neurosurgeons so they see and do a variety of cases.

Even then don't make the mistake of assuming most neurosurgeries are mindless repetition. To be in that field you have to constantly stay updated with the latest research and newest techniques that you have to decide based on the studies if you should perform and in what situations. It's far from simple.

This paper got almost a hundred citations in a medical journal.

Oh this makes me so sad.