I've worked at medical schools (veterinarian & human) for years and found that although they all receive extensive scientific training, most don't come out behaving as scientist.
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The whole *mindset* is completely different. I think the best way to sum it up is that doctors have to believe they are right, and scientists constantly strive to prove themselves wrong.
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That's not a bad thing. A doctor could not treat a patient without that certainty. Constant uncertainty is paralyzing in medicine.
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A crucial part of scientific investigation is exposing your ideas to the scrutiny of your peers. If that’s not happening, it ain’t science.
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1/ Scientists sometimes do engineering & engineers sometimes do science. I’d say work most physicians do is more like engineering, as should
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2/ I know physicians, some publish research, most okeep up in latest science & see medical science researchers often at UCSF & Stanford.
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This is especially true in the US where there’s a clear difference between clinical and research tracks (Americans are very bad at striking happy balances, be it in beer, medicine, society ;)). MDs in purely clinical tracks are as far from being scientists as possible.
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Sadly, this is an indictment of educational systems.
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1/2 My veterinary training was very heavily authority/expert/experience-based. That was 30 years ago. Things have improved in education but I still find new graduates struggle with genuine scepticism and their default setting is trust in authority.
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2/2 Trust authority is ‘dyed in the wool’ from early on. The scientific method is taught at school and university but risks being adopted as a mere set of tools to get results rather than the basis of a sceptical worldview. I didn’t ‘get it’ properly until PhD and after.
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