> I think general ability is way way way more important than the specialisation. I don't think the speciality that doctors spend money and time on add that much value..

And why do you think that? I'm a doctor and I disagree completely - the medicine nowadays is so advanced, that it's impossible to keep up with advances without specialising yourself in narrow area.

That's interesting because it is exactly for the reason you give "impossible to keep up" that I think general ability is crucial.

Please read what I said again - it’s impossible to keep up unless you specialize. It’s really bad tactic to cut something out of context where context is literally in the same sentence.

Can you please read again? If the pace moves so fast that you can't keep up, it is even more reason to hire for general ability.

What made you think that "things are moving really fast" is an argument for hiring specialists? Doctors smh..

Please at least show an attempt to understand what is said.

> If the pace moves so fast that you can't keep up, it is even more reason to hire for general ability.

I can keep up with my specialized field, but I can’t keep up with entire medicine because it’s too broad. It’s clearly a case where specialization is important. I’m not the one that has problems with understanding here.

I say this as a tech person married to a physician. Hacker News is a very bad place to discuss medicine because most of the readers and writers are tech people who just don't have exposure to medicine in depth.

It would be the same as someone from Hacker News going to read a medical forum where people are discussing AI, and the takes would feel similarly juvenile and uninformed, simply due to lack of exposure.

You are right, of course… but unfortunately I don't think it's worth arguing too much here.

He’s a deluded fool that keeps commenting on things way out of his expertise and for which he has zero experience of.

He’s polluting this damn place.

Many of his posts tend to be down voted for a reason.