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SheilaT

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51. You've hit on an important point.

Fri May 15, 2015, 06:01 AM

May 2015

" it's not uncommon for someone who is really talented in one field to be arrogant enough to think it makes them qualified to excel in something completely unrelated."

Doctors are the very worst at this. I don't understand, but there's something about becoming a doctor that makes a person think he's totally qualified in everything else. Most of the rest of us get it that just because we know a lot about astrophysics or road repair or inpatient registration, we don't know everything else. But doctors? They somehow think that becoming a physician means they magically know everything else about the universe.

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