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ChrisMarshallNY • yesterday at 5:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I dunno. Doctors can be a ... bit ... arrogant. I could definitely see one going YOLO! on this kind of thing.

There's the old joke:

    What's the difference between a doctor and God?
    God doesn't think He's a doctor.

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NateEag • yesterday at 8:54 PM

Sure, as one raised by an ER doctor, I have had a very up-close-and-personal view of many doctors being arrogant.

I can't see any of the ones I've known not stepping aside on discovering they're spontaneously, unpredictably losing the memory of how to do surgical procedures.

I wouldn't go so far as to day no doctor would ever keep going on the face of that happening, but I will say to do that would be utterly inhumane.

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