• SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
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      M.D. here and I feel like I should defend myself but all I can think of was this highly trained doc who fought the hospital administration about having to wear masks, in the hospital, during peak Covid. I mean he was actually one of many but what made him stand out was that his wife was in our ICU. With Covid. Yes he continued to fight masking even as his own wife was near death in the ICU.

      So, yeah.

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        Well he can just fuck right off

        …like, out of the hospital

        …preferably out of his profession entirely, if possible

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          honestly dude the older I get the more I learn a lot of behavior that seems hurtful is just coming from someone who DOES NOT pause to consider what its doing to someone else. its not that they dont care, its just it never dawns on them that its hurting others

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        its just there are over 20 currently agreed upon “types” of intelligence, so people can be very sharp in some ways and utterly hopeless in others.

        Most doctors are put together pretty well in my experience though

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          You are so absolutely correct about this. This gentleman I refer to is actually a very smart guy in many ways. But say it with me folks: You are not immune to propaganda.

          This gentleman was drinking the Fox News tea big time and that’s where the anti-mask, anti-vaccine stuff was coming from. His training and years of knowledge just eventually got short circuited from the constant propaganda.

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          Weird having worked with them closely for almost twenty years in a hospital setting.

          I can say for many I met. They’re absolutely no better than the average person is “put together”. The only thing they tend to be superior at is memorization and recall.

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      I had two CS professors who should NOT be asked about anything other than programing or math

      If it was something other than those two topics then you will almost certainly be given a confident, yet incorrect, answer

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        Sys admin here for quite some time.

        This is pretty typical in our field I’ve found, because that’s what it takes to move up in this field.

        Non-CS just believe the “oh you work with computers? So you must know how to hack Facebook” logic, so they have to either say they don’t know how and look stupid, or just rattle off some absolute bonkers shit that uses acronyms and such above the non-CSs head.

        This eventually bleeds into their reality and becomes a character trait.

        It’s more a human/culture problem than a CS problem but I get what you mean :)