> Is being a doctor hard?
I have a friend who is a surgeon who says he hardly uses anything he learned in medical school and that he could teach a carpenter to do his job. (I think he is exaggerating a bit, but it's a funny anecdote).
I have a friend who is a surgeon who says he hardly uses anything he learned in medical school and that he could teach a carpenter to do his job. (I think he is exaggerating a bit, but it's a funny anecdote).
Most of medicine is relatively routine. A surgeon's skill isn't so much in the 99% of cases, but the 1% that have adverse outcomes. More importantly, their skill comes in identifying the possibility of adverse outcomes and preventing them from ever happening.
Me and you could easily be taught to do a routine surgery, like an appendectomy. However, we wouldn't be able to identify if something requires more treatment or prevent a patient from dying if things don't go perfect.
I'm sure he's using the fundamentals he learned in med school more than he thinks, but yeah everything in psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics most likely not.