• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    There are still plenty of conservative people in higher education. I unfortunately know MDs (usually surgeons…) who are even against M4A, are racist, sexist, etc.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      every once in a while you end up in an ER where they aren’t just throwing around gallows humor, they’re being downright ableist. that’s a whole different kind of fun.

      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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        22 hours ago

        Yeah, That’s probably one of the worst ones anywhere but particularly in Healthcare areas not specific to the condition(s). It tends to be a little better if there is a community of people with the condition in the area.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      There may be an academic name for it, but I call it the Min-Max Effect. Technical experts in demanding fields (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) frequently spend all their time and effort learning and developing their technical expertise, at the expense of everything else. This creates a lot of brilliant doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., who are absolutely clueless about anything outside their specialty.

      It’s probably not helped by the fact that school for those fields is quite expensive, so we might expect those who grew up wealthy to be more likely to graduate; poorer students rely on scholarships and loans, and even part time work.