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doctors can have really shit opinions too
the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there
It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..
Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.
I wouldn't trust a doctor's opinion on medicine unless their PhD were in medicine. Most aren't.
I don't consider MDs to be doctors.
A Medical Doctor isn't a doctor, in your eyes?
OK, genius.
That's right. Physicians asked to have Doctor put in their names because they were tired of not being respected as much as real doctors, which is to say teachers.
You should look up what a PhD in Medicine is and how it's not the same as an MD (Doctor of Medicine). Your user name couldn't be further from the truth.
I already know a PhD in medicine is different to an MD, that's why I wrote a comment that says one's a doctor and one isn't. Read my comment until you understand it.
You said an MD is not a doctor. They are. They are literally a MEDICAL DOCTOR. A PhD in medicine is really only gained as a dual doctoral degree and will then be MD-PhD. It combines the Medical knowledge of an MD with the more research driven knowledge of a PhD.
In the Medical world an MD, is often called a physician. However Lemmy is not the medical world and for all intents and purposes a MD is a Doctor.
You saying MD is not a Doctor is just making you look stupid.
If a physician is qualified to teach at the highest academic level due to their research skills, I'll call them a doctor. Otherwise, they're just a physician. Putting in IVs and prescribing cold medicine doesn't make you a doctor. Research skills make you a doctor.
You're trying to be pedantic and it's just making you look stupid. You also have no idea about modern medicine if you think physicians put in IVs. A central line, sure. But you don't even know what this is without looking it up, I bet.
It’s the line in the middle, right? 😉
Both are doctors... There are also theology doctors, juridical doctors, and so on.
There is a difference between 1st and 3rd cycle doctorate though!
Good luck with your accupuncture and herbal tea whenever your appendix explodes 🤣
I trust physicians on matters of medicine. I just don't think they're doctors.
I don't think your username is a good fit for you.
Reading your comments, I can't tell if you are trolling us, or if you really are this tarded?
In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.
I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.
Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions
Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer
The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right
Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎
I like to make the distinction between competence and intelligence. There are some overlaps, but they are mostly distinct.
Specialists are experts in their field. Much like many of the IT people they fall into the trap of “Im smart because my job requires it so therefore every opinion I have is intelligent” and that simply isn’t how it really works.
Always remember: The vaccines cause autism bullshit was started by a fully licensed doctor.
A fully-licensed doctor who, if I remember correctly, had invested in a company developing an alternative to the existing vaccinations.
Literally killing people for money.
Well he ain't a fully licensed doctor no more.
And it took them 12 years to do it.
A great video about this topic.