[goldenkey]

Medicine isn't alien if you spend enough years caring about it. The problem is, most people are of the attitude that they shouldn't pay any mind to the science, because the doctors will take care of it. This leads to total dependence on the infallibility of these professionals - and we all know that no professionals are infallible despite their title. The main jig docs have over polymathy knowledge-driven intelligent folk is first-hand sight/smell/ and feel for conditions by seeing patients day in and day out. Drugs though? Most of everyone can understand what would look sketch as fuck in terms of dosing. It pays to have some semblance of heuristics on what competent care and pharmacuetical administration looks like.

The populace would be far better off if we all stopped feigning lack of interest for the things that truly matter. Like medicine/biology. It's the study of us. Sure, delegate decisions to those in the day in, day out - that is diligence. But don't just accept to hear jargon. Learn what's going on. Be active. Knowledge isn't agnostic to specific fields..especially when its about your body itself. That is human knowledge. And everybody who is living should at least be half competent in knowing whether 38 pills of an antibiotic makes any goddamn sense. If this nurse had been a knowledge worker first, and a robotic nurse second, she probably would have caught the issue. Over specialization creates idiots following scripts. Meh..