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Why are so many doctors technology illiterate?
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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This raises a lot of good points. My brother went through the medical program and probably did more study in his undergraduate/post grad than id be capable of in a lifetime. The workload they do just to get their degree is insane.
Its truly maddening. I live with someone doing a non-medical doctorate and I'm good friends with an M.D. student. The amount of time and focus required is astounding. I'm grateful that people take the effort and have the dedication, but, fuck, I need more free time in my life than what can be afforded to these people. Especially during the residency. They treat you so poorly in these programs, it would be called abuse in any other field.
Maddening is right on. The fact the so much of the old guard has the “we suffered through it so now you should too” mindset as well. More than once during my brothers residency a senior doctor has attempted to throw him under the bus as well. Credit to them because it’s a solid “no thanks” from me.
And a hell of a lot less sex with your colleagues and superiors than Grey's Anatomy would have you believe!! Though watching that show after seeing people go through doctoral programs makes me feel it's one massive ethics violation and every doctor in that hospital would be fired if they ever audited the place.