I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and alone in the mountains

Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by etrautmann on Thursday July 11, 2024 @01:20AM (#40933882)

I haven’t watched yet but this seems highly selective. There’s so much creative building in medicine, from what’s done in orthopedics with rebuilding joints (often using a patients existing tissue with new hardware) or with reconstructive surgery, etc. if you consider medicine more broadly to include pharmacology or therapy then there’s more room for constructive creativity.

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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by randerson on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:20AM (#40942877)

Brain surgery might be particularly skewed toward feeling barbaric. They are cutting a hole in someone’s head and digging around in brain tissue, often permanently removing tissue or skull. In 500 years time I assume they’ll give you a small drink of nanobots which find their way to the problem and solve it at the microscopic level. Until then, pass the bone saw.

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