A doctor at their best, really focusing on a problem as if their spouses life depended on it, might pull out some decent advice after really thinking about something.

In their 8 minute session with you, they are worse than chatgpt basically.

It’s like any other field, most suck and it requires effort to find the smart ones.

Yep, 100%. It just feels worse with doctors imo because it feels like the culture treats them like some monolith of skill and wisdom.

Yeah and the dumber ones think they’re smart because they did the grindy schooling. My dad is a physician and did EE undergrad - he says EE is much harder and med school is (mostly) low complexity but high volume, high memorization.

If anything it’s somewhat of a lemon market that’s worse than average because it’s not a great career generally to leverage skill into wealth (relatively compared to other options), but it lets risk averse people on rails get a decent outcome.