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by lifestyleguru 1 hour ago
Not really. Medicine, engineering, law all are a sum of intergenerational knowledge.

Yet everytime I deal with healthcare I encounter some <30 years old kids who learn medicine from scratch and have only 5 minutes of their time for me. Reading about medicine fells like reading science fiction. We seem to know everything about a human, yet in practice you might die or become crippled even from a trivial problem.