"Medical Experts"
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 22:40 last edited by George K
A couple of weeks ago I was watching a cable news channel and they were talking about the pandemic. There was a medical expert giving her opinions on the management of the virus, etc.
She's an anesthesiologist in New York.
Today, they had another one talking about it.
She's a radiologist, specializing in breast cancer imaging.
I have no doubt, or at least I have no knowledge of their competence in their fields. However, to have these people giving opinions on the management, etc of the pandemic, well, their opinion hold little more expertise than, say, mine, or @bachophile. And he's probably more knowledgable than I am.
Pisses me off.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 22:42 last edited by
Makes no sense, and is what passes for journalism these days.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 23:08 last edited by George K
@Mik said in "Medical Experts":
Makes no sense, and is what passes for journalism these days.
At least they were pretty....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Saphier
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wrote on 31 Aug 2020, 00:35 last edited by
Being pretty is the one requirement.
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wrote on 31 Aug 2020, 00:53 last edited by
@Friday said in "Medical Experts":
Being pretty is the one requirement.
Are you saying I'm not qualified?
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wrote on 31 Aug 2020, 01:20 last edited by
Society has worked long and hard to establish a barrier between MDs and non-MDs through which respect for one's ideas about all things health cannot pass. Your ideas are either respectable or useless based on that single threshold. Thus we have things like this, or another great example, those two ER doctors who owned the urgent care center who donned the lab coats for the cameras and claimed to have used all their extensive medical and scientific training to determine that people should definitely still be using their facility even though COVID.