I’m a doctor(retired early because of Bitcoin) and I can assure you that critical and independent thinking is not a hallmark of doctors. I don’t know why, but it is a fact.
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Kudos on all fronts. At least in America, this is observably true. And there are many in my family.
I orange pilled my sister(who’s a doctor, and one of the rare freely thinking ones, too, She’s 74 now!) and brother in 2020. I’m proud of that!
Because medicine was captured by government and turned into a bureaucracy where following orders, rote memorization and following “standard of care” formulas are the requirements for success?
Yes.
And maybe due to the inconvenient fact that doctors are as sheepish as the rest of the majority of any population, doctors or not.
I doubt that independent thinking is learned; it’s more a part of a personality type that is too rare.
But of course the culture of any organisation is important, and if the culture is rewarding following orders, lays emphasis on bureaucracy and rote memorization instead of rewarding independant thinking, this is what you get, especially if you have a group of relatively high iq individuals, that can implement the programming effectively.