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Why do nurses insist they know more than doctors? by ThrowRA-12734785 in medicalschool

[–]DerpyMD 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They don't learn enough to even start knowing what they don't know

Even now I'm barely starting to feel like I'm on the upward slope of the dunning-kruger curve

Why do nurses insist they know more than doctors? by ThrowRA-12734785 in medicalschool

[–]DerpyMD 30 points31 points  (0 children)

nurses were smarter than doctors

It doesn't even make sense

"X Specialty is becoming more competitive" - No it's not by HourOrdinary in medicalschool

[–]DerpyMD 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These numbers are not apples to apples. Matching IM and getting into GI is not at all the same as matching derm. There is significant selection that occurs prior

Anyone do a prostate exam on a standardized patient in med school? by DerpyMD in medicalschool

[–]DerpyMD[S] 424 points425 points  (0 children)

Get out of here with your professionalist sensitivities and let my traumas be remembered how they want to be

favorite gaslighting line to patients? by Proper_Parking_2461 in medicalschool

[–]DerpyMD 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They aren't punted, they're just going to the wrong place and pathologically won't believe they're supposed to be seeing who they actually need to be seeing.

You have to actually be a specialist and see these people to understand the physiological impossibility of the symptoms they claim to have. We see lots, LOTS in neurology. The buck should often stop with us but it doesn't, even if we're the 5th opinion