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Paka

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20. Neurosurgeons are very similar to the mechanic...

Reply to GGJohn (Reply #15)

Fri Jan 15, 2016, 02:35 AM

Jan 2016

...who works on your car. You learn the geography and where all the wires go, and it is mostly eye-hand coordination after that. It requires no real brilliance, just a very good memory and steady nerves. Diagnostic internists are brilliant.

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So long as we have idiot doctors like Ben Carson, I can never in good conscience support tort reform [View all] CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 OP

Idiot Doctor? Wow. Not how I'd explain his medical brilliance. yeoman6987 Jan 2016 #1

No Democrat should support tort reform ever. N/T Big Blue Marble Jan 2016 #2

Idiot doctors like Ben Carson? GGJohn Jan 2016 #3

Many of his cases resulted in severe disability and death CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #4

Link? GGJohn Jan 2016 #6

Wikipedia CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #8

Wow, high risk surgeries to seperate conjoined twins, and a couple of them died? GGJohn Jan 2016 #11

Most of them died CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #13

Bullshit, that's a flat out lie. GGJohn Jan 2016 #14

In regards to the conjoined brain surgeries? CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #16

Seperating conjoined twins is always a high risk surgery, GGJohn Jan 2016 #17

Not sure that actually pans out Egnever Jan 2016 #5

The fact remains that he was a brilliant pediatrician, GGJohn Jan 2016 #7

Like the Binder twins? CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #10

2 out of how many? GGJohn Jan 2016 #12

You seem to know a lot about him Egnever Jan 2016 #18

Maybe you missed the part about those being high risk, as in very good chance of death, GGJohn Jan 2016 #19

Maybe Egnever Jan 2016 #21

To twist a Star Trek line Mendocino Jan 2016 #9

Really? GGJohn Jan 2016 #15

Neurosurgeons are very similar to the mechanic... Paka Jan 2016 #20