Medicine is Not a Science

[Martin Hash]

People get into medicine by taking a series of very difficult timed memory tests, exactly the kind of short-term, plastic memory that human beings start losing at about the age 18, and by 35 is obviously apparent. By 50, everyone is stupid if you use a timed memory exam to determine their intelligence. Your 40-year old doctor who went through pre-med & graduated med school at 25 may be a total idiot now because their qualifications are not like other professions that test true intelligence. There are many good doctors because the field attracts intelligent people in the first place; and there are efficacious drugs, it's better now than the Dark Ages, but the adulation that physicians receive is misplaced. If you're going to idolize intelligence then look for a Ph.D. in the hard sciences.