Doctors aren't necessarily brilliant. And remember, 50% of them graduate in the bottom 1/2 of their class. Some are just good at memorization and / or test taking, but not necessarily thoughtful.

I've known a number of Drs that I would call ANYTHING but brilliant, fired a few that were involved in my wifes care. College doesn't really require an ability to learn these days, just an ability to memorize shit (based on my own experience as a college instructor..), and folks with a shortage in learning ability, tend to compensate with memorization (usually just long enough for assignment/testing).

There are a lot of people that are educated beyond their intelligence. A lot of those people are doctors. I have several friends that are doctors and also a daughter-in-law. Thankfully most of those have some common sense. My d-i-l is an OB-GYN. When the vaccines came out she started doing her research and then she told her pregnant patients that if they wanted to take the jab they would have to find another doctor.

Most challenging IQ test in my life time. Happy I passed without any hesitation.

Doctors are not brilliant. They're intelligent - a measure of memory, recitation, problem solving and attention span.

They are not wise - a measure of independent thinking, critical analysis, and logical deduction.

I give the title zero respect. I've met plenty of doctors who are less intelligent than guys I've known in construction. Common sense cannot be taught.

Most doctors nowadays aren’t that smart just persistent (I work in a hospital so I see and hear it all the time from doctors themselves and med students). They are just taught to memorize and regurgitate whatever they are taught and are often times too busy or lazy to do research themselves so they put blind trust in their superiors. Most do not have critical thinking abilities unfortunately. Not to mention they are also afraid to think differently than their colleagues. Not sure if this is because of fear of retaliation from medical board or just wanting to be accepted by their colleagues.

Excerpt from "International Review of the Red Cross, Volume 89 Number 867 September 2007, pp 645-647"

First, members are screened for intellect, [40] physical ability and a powerful positive identification with the political regime. This not only helps groups find individuals with the abilities they want, but also fosters an idea among members that inclusion is special and the group is elite, differentiating its members from others. New members are bound to the group through basic training, a set of initiation rites which often include isolation from people outside the group, and the imposition of new rules and values. From this beginning, members develop an elitist attitude and an in-group language. They learn to dehumanize themselves as well as outsiders – to subsume their individual identities within that of the group. Leaders harass and intimidate recruits, [41] preventing logical thinking and instilling instinctive responses. Rewards are given for obedience, and socialization of the group includes witnessing group violence, 42 often in the form of the intimidation of recalcitrant members. As a result, members become desensitized to violence; both seeing and perpetrating violence become routine. All this training adds up to complete control of the group over its members.

With this understanding of group psychology it is easy to see how members of the military are susceptible to becoming perpetrators. It may be less obvious why medical doctors are vulnerable (see Table 2). One must remind oneself that physicians are experts at compartmentalization, who deal with life and death every day and whose profession carries a sense of power. The motivation for choosing a career as a physician is often a fantasy of power, either sadistic or voyeuristic, as medicine gives licence to look, touch and control. Doctors treat patients as impersonal medical cases so that they can more easily process what they have to do – taking a scientific approach to remain detached in their work, they heal by attacking and killing disease with surgery or therapy or whatever tools they have available. Medical students also go through an initiation ordeal. In the anatomy class they handle a dehumanized cadaver or watch operations without knowing the patients, and are made to feel shame for any lapses in which they show too much ‘‘weakness’’ or inability to dehumanize patients. [43] Medicine as a profession contains the rudiments of evil, and some of the most humane of medical acts are only small steps away from real evil. For example, although surgery to amputate a gangrenous limb is a healing act, it involves the cutting and maiming of the human body, which in non-medical circumstances would be a harmful, criminal act.

Table 2. Why physicians are vulnerable to becoming perpetrators

• Compartmentalization
• Tendencies towards sadism, voyeurism
• Healing through hurting, repressing awareness of violence
• Use of science to objectify violence
• Use of metaphors and euphemisms
• Tendency to justify and rationalize
• Impersonal medical detachment
• Narcissistic sense of superiority

Excerpt footnotes:

40 Mika Haritos-Fatouros, ‘‘The official torturer’’, in Ronald D. Crelinsten and Alex P. Schmid (eds.), The Politics of Pain: Torturers and Their Masters, Westview Press, Boulder, Colo., 1994.

41 (Robert Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Basic Books, New York, 1986.)

42 Janice T. Gibson and Mika Haritos-Fatouros, ‘‘The Education of a Torturer,’’ Psychology Today, November 1986, pp. 50–8.

43 Heidi Lempp and Clive Seale, ‘‘The hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of medical students’ perceptions of teaching’’, British Medical Journal, Vol. 329 (2004), pp. 770–3.

My wake up call was when the public health nurse who wanted to jab me talked about how she hated white men.

Never personally had any problems with the medical field until around 2019 when I met that malevolent gorgon.

They have the raw intelligence to succeed at mind-boggling biological chemistry lessons but they have no wisdom.

I haven't watched it but it might have the answers you seek: https://www.cultofthemedics.com/

Or else consider a PhD in Marxist economics. Probably takes years of hard study, not easy, but in the end the info you learn is garbage and useless.

Same with our current medical system. You don't learn how to fix, just regurgitate propaganda for big pharma, which is intended to keep you on as a client.

Book smarts and common sense are not necessarily synonymous.

The real question is - Did you tell your daughter to get a different Pediatrician?

Luckily, I have some good oncologists. The radiation oncologist is almost as old as I am and confesses to being "old school." The other oncologist is younger, but she was smart enough to move from the big city to my town where she's the only one of her kind and can make a ton of money. Immunotherapy has worked wonders for me.

Many doctors become ''doctors'' not because they want to help other people but because they want to make a lot of money by making people sicker.

Many of them ally with big pharma to keep sick people so they continue buying medicines and more medicines.

They teach the smart right out of them.