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Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o... by jacques_chester on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:15PM (#18835345)
> It's simply ludicrous on its face.

That's not a meaningful test of correctness.

Many medical practices are organised as you describe (for example, surgeries specialising in nothing but hernias), but medical cases often transcend simple boundaries and a broad amount of understanding is required to detect that boundary violation (such as realising it's not a hernia, or that an organ near the hernia seems to be diseased, or that the patient is going into anaphylactic shock because of a surprise reaction to anaesthetics, or ... or ... or ... or ... ).

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Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o... by treis on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:28PM (#18836576)
> or that the patient is going into anaphylactic shock because of a surprise reaction to anaesthetics, or ... or ... or ... or ... ).

And if I go into anaphylactic shock during my hernia surgery should I be grateful that my surgeon did a Pediatric, OBGYN, Neurology, Psychology, and Oncology rotation? Or that they can draw the Krebs cycle?

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