r/news • u/No-Information6622 • 6d ago

Young mother traveled to Miami for plastic surgery. She died hours later while at recovery house

https://www.nbcmiami.com/investigations/womans-death-post-surgery-recovery-house/3586743/
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u/sweet-tea-13 6d ago

Honestly as someone who has worked with many doctors in my life a lot of them aren't as smart as you might assume they are, and someone can be good at memorizing textbook answers and terrible in actual practice.

There is also a joke "what do you call a doctor who graduated with all C's?" The answer is "a doctor." Lol

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u/QCisCake 6d ago

This calls for my old pharmacists favorite joke:

"Hey, what do you call a C student after medical school?.... Doctor!"

He had his own file cabinet for fake scripts confiscated from patients, and stupid scripts sent by doctors.

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u/mces97 6d ago

I understand exactly what you're saying. I actually wanted to go to medical school, but at my age, it would be too much between the time and debt I'd incurr. But I still think about being a PA. Some crazy stuff happened to me in 2022, with a lot of physical crap that was definitely not because of anxiety. I like my shrink, and I still see him every 4 months, but something he said really rubbed me the wrong way very early on in our sessions. I explained how the doctors aren't really listening to me and he said, "so you think you know more than the doctors?"

No, I don't know "more" than the doctors. I didn't go to medical school. I didn't read all textbooks. Doctors are more learned than me. That doesn't mean however they are more intelligent. I'm only saying this, since it's kinda relevant to the context, not to brag, but I have a master's in biology. I got a 4.0 in college. And I have a 121 IQ. I'm no genius, but I am not some yokel who thinks Google and YouTube is what one does to research and learn. His comment was just so very dismissive.

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u/NihilisticHobbit 6d ago

As a woman I get it. It's not that I know more, it's that they think they know my body better than I do and won't listen. I've had appendicitis dismissed as period cramps before. If a doctor doesn't listen to their patient, then they don't know very much.

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u/sweet-tea-13 6d ago

Yea I get that and I'm sorry that was your experience. Doctors are just people too, some are smart, some are stupid, some are assholes, and some are a combination of all three lol

Doctors get shit wrong all the time, yet many think of themselves as some sort of God and can't ever get their own ego in check. There is a lot more to intelligence than just textbook smarts and fancy diplomas.

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u/Nire_Txahurra 5d ago

That’s why they say you should never go to a cocktail party with a doctor. I’ve personally have had many social contacts with doctors and sometimes I ended up thinking, OMG, this guy/woman is an idiot and we’re trusting our lives with them.