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by qwerty456127 1828 days ago
Feynman's behavior seems rather irrational in this case. If he believed the doctor was smart and competent he shouldn't have interfered. If he doesn't he shouldn't have made the assumption about what the doctor "obviously considered".

As a result the doctor probably concluded he should never listen to the patients' ideas and rather always put the easiest diagnosis which also is a quite common kind of a doctor to meet and is not much better than a totally incompetent one who doesn't even know the most common diagnoses but at least would listen to you as long as you sound reasonable, make the tests and try prescribing the medications you suggest as long as they are in line with the literature.

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Competence isn't yes/no.