> it seems unlikely that while in medical school someone can also complete a full-time two-year business program and start a doctorate.
If you're very ignorant about a topic, it's probably a good idea to do thirty seconds of Googling to make sure a claim is actually implausible before you accuse someone of lying.
MD/MBA programs exist that add 1-2 years to one's med school[1]. On top of that, "over the course of his medical education" quite explicitly doesn't simply mean "in med school", unless for some bizarre reason you don't consider one's residency (and possibly fellowship) years to be part of one's education. Lastly, and I can't believe I have to explain this, _starting_ a doctorate doesn't actually take any time. In the limit, it takes one Planck time[2].
> I'm not a "peer" with my doctor because whether it's rote memorization or not, they've got at least 7 years of training I don't, and much more if they're a specialist and not a GP. You do not have a "substantial headstart" on any research relevant to your problem unless you've had it for years and are seeing a new GP just to get a referral to a new specialist. In which case, honestly, your old specialist can probably just refer you somewhere else.
You've entirely missed the point of my comment. You seem to think that doctors are equipped with future-tech Neuralinks to personally feel the day-to-day manifestation of every one of your symptoms and Black Mirror-style grains to review your entire life history and extract the parts which may be relevant to your medical issue. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they're not: for any non-trivial medical issue, doctors have the difficult task of compressing the entirety of your life into the data that are relevant to your current condition, and doing so in a very short time. If you think that they're capable of doing this without active participation from you, then I pray you never have any medical issues, because you are going to have a very bad time in the healthcare system.
> There are plenty of specialties much more challenging than family med
Yes, obviously. Part of "know what you don't know" is realizing that the complexity of some medical issues means that the "general technical knowledge" side of the scale is weighted heavier than the "intimate insight into the specific problem" side of the scale. I'm not suggesting that one starts arguing with an oncologist about which course of chemo they should be on. But then, I'm pretty sure that was obvious to everyone reading my comment who _didn't_ write a response constructing a series of towering strawmen.
If you're very ignorant about a topic, it's probably a good idea to do thirty seconds of Googling to make sure a claim is actually implausible before you accuse someone of lying.
MD/MBA programs exist that add 1-2 years to one's med school[1]. On top of that, "over the course of his medical education" quite explicitly doesn't simply mean "in med school", unless for some bizarre reason you don't consider one's residency (and possibly fellowship) years to be part of one's education. Lastly, and I can't believe I have to explain this, _starting_ a doctorate doesn't actually take any time. In the limit, it takes one Planck time[2].
> I'm not a "peer" with my doctor because whether it's rote memorization or not, they've got at least 7 years of training I don't, and much more if they're a specialist and not a GP. You do not have a "substantial headstart" on any research relevant to your problem unless you've had it for years and are seeing a new GP just to get a referral to a new specialist. In which case, honestly, your old specialist can probably just refer you somewhere else.
You've entirely missed the point of my comment. You seem to think that doctors are equipped with future-tech Neuralinks to personally feel the day-to-day manifestation of every one of your symptoms and Black Mirror-style grains to review your entire life history and extract the parts which may be relevant to your medical issue. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they're not: for any non-trivial medical issue, doctors have the difficult task of compressing the entirety of your life into the data that are relevant to your current condition, and doing so in a very short time. If you think that they're capable of doing this without active participation from you, then I pray you never have any medical issues, because you are going to have a very bad time in the healthcare system.
> There are plenty of specialties much more challenging than family med
Yes, obviously. Part of "know what you don't know" is realizing that the complexity of some medical issues means that the "general technical knowledge" side of the scale is weighted heavier than the "intimate insight into the specific problem" side of the scale. I'm not suggesting that one starts arguing with an oncologist about which course of chemo they should be on. But then, I'm pretty sure that was obvious to everyone reading my comment who _didn't_ write a response constructing a series of towering strawmen.
[1] https://freeman.tulane.edu/academics/graduate-programs/doubl...
[2] I'm not a physicist, this is an attempt at a lame joke, don't @ me