Supposedly the terms and names you learn as a doctor are comparable to a new language
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Oh interesting. That sounds about right and a better mental model than the dictionary/atlas I had in mind. Is that something you heard from doctor friends or read somewhere?
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Yup. A good 50% of my dad’s time off from the hospital went into memorization routines. He’d make flashcards, audio notes, revise, listen in the car, listen while going to sleep. Lived and breathed that stuff.
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I’d love to get my hands on a good deck of flash cards
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The body is a system so no, rationality and logical cause-effect (not memory) should be involved in every diagnosis.
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Are you a doctor?
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Yes. Some laypeople do too. It’s fun.
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Are you one of them?
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During med school we learn the mechanisms of things and remember those by via specific examples. In working life the things we don't use everyday slip away, and the things we do use become so familiar they aren't any trouble to recall.
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In working life it's really just enough to remember that things exist so when you encounter something that jogs your memory you know what to look up. All the med school memorization was really just to build an index in your head, the content is always available externally.
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