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re: What makes a brain surgeon necessarily more "brilliant" than a heart surgeon?

Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:06 pm to
Posted by Scruffy
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:06 pm to
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This is not a politics thread.
Agreed. This is a thread where you get called out on your racism.
Posted by goofball
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:07 pm to
Sorry, Rex. Downplaying the difficulty of neurosurgery isn't going to make Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama look any smarter.

Take crap to the PT
Posted by Langston
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:07 pm to
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Mastery of complex mathematics takes more intelligence than Ben Carson ever had to employ. Or could employ


Right, because understanding and memorizing how to do complex mathematics takes more intelligence than improvising while cutting on a child's brain and things go wrong.
Posted by LSURussian
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:08 pm to
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Mastery of complex mathematics takes more intelligence than Ben Carson ever had to employ.
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This is not a politics thread.
Posted by Taxing Authority
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:08 pm to
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How to suture arteries and nerves and tissue? Not so much.
So in your view this is the extent of "brain surgery"?

It's pretty clear one does not need to be "brilliant" to be a poster with an opinion.
Posted by wickowick
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:08 pm to
Posted by Kcoyote
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:09 pm to
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I vote we let a heart surgeon operate on your brain. Come back and tell us the results



If the choice is between heart surgeon doing brain surgery and a poster on the OT, I choose the heart surgeon 100 times out of 100.
Posted by LSUMJ
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:09 pm to
should we add brain surgery to ever growing list of jobs you know more about than anyone?

he really makes your solitary undergrad degree look pretty weak doesnt he
Posted by Horsemeat
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:11 pm to
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This is not a politics thread.


Riiiiiight.
Posted by Kcoyote
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:15 pm to
Also the answer is undeniably a higher Step 1 score makes you more brilliant.

That's a joke.
Posted by To the Dome
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:17 pm to
What does this even mean
Posted by redfishfan
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:24 pm to
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Recent evidence proves that it doesn't take a brilliant man to be a brain surgeon


The ignorance you are displaying here is unreal. The brain is so complex and not fully understood. Example of the complexity of it.
Posted by Adam Banks
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Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:24 pm to
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What makes a brain surgeon necessarily more "brilliant" than a heart surgeon?




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Or any other surgeon, for that matter? Or any other doctor? Or any other person?





The average board scores for a neurosurgeon are far greater than the average for general surgery which is the path to take to become as you mentioned a heart surgeon, vascular surgeon, colorectal surgeon, surgical oncologist. The average Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon is exponentially higher than the average neurosurgeon. So that covers the question of other medical professionals.


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What makes a brain surgeon necessarily more "brilliant"


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Or any other person?



Well first of all the herd gets trimmed in pre med. There are multiple weed out courses containing high levels of biology, chemistry and physics. Then there is the MCAT which if you survive pre med you might not survive that. Then there is med school which as above. Then it is minimum 7 years of residency making crap pay and in a research intensive field at a research intensive institution such as hopkins you are the leading innovators in medicine. I think that qualifies as more brilliant than the average person.


I know you are trolling but this is absurd.
Posted by Marco Esquandolas
Member since Jul 2013
11881 posts
Posted on 11/10/15 at 12:31 pm to
Rex, you are the worst.

Really.

...and not because I agree/disagree with your views either.

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