In a Communist society, would a doctor have any priority over a postman?

Wrong again. They can just enter the drugs into a computer to see which drugs have bad reactions. They should still often know which drugs not to mix, but that doesn't require remembering all the chemistry behind it.

Then please elaborate on how you understand the metabolic pathways of such medications, how you know based on body characteristics of patient the proper dosage limits.

If a patient falls into the metabolic acidosis or alkalosis categories, how do you properly treat them?

What about people with disorders, heavy acidity, PKU, just basic metabolism problems?

Patients with liver problems, which is a lot of people, endocrine disorders. Explain how you treat them without that understanding

A "mental illness" is just a label for alleged behaviors/feelings, not a real physical illness.

Yeah: that's why it's called a...wait for it...:wait for it...mental illness. Not a physical illness. But a mental illness.

What's the definition of illness: a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind.

Oh look at that; you are showing signs of [illiteracy]

Allen Frances (the chairman in charge of creating the DSM-IV) explained how they just "made up" all "mental illnesses:" Mental disorders don't really live ‘out there’ waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones."

Thank you, once again [illiteracy]. Why don't you use the whole quote. The quote starts off with "biological psychiatry has failed to produce quick, convincing explanations for any of the mental disorders. This is because it has been unable to circumvent the fundamental and inherent flow in the biological 'realist' approach..."

What this quote actually is taking about is the way mental illnesses are diagnosed as compared to physical illnesses.

For example: if I get an STD, we can diagnose how I got it. My disease x is caused by virus y. That's how physical disease diagnosis works

What Frances is talking about is that mental illness diagnosis won't work the same way, the way the new model (5) wants to standardize mental illnesses won't work because for example schizophrenia likely has 50 different causes not one. So it becomes impossible to standardize

Please take some time to actually read his full body of work, rather than taking the quote of context

Nice try though

Doctors are not allowed to truly specialize- they're forced through endless general classes studying things unrelated to what they want to specialize in.

Can you be specific, what classes are unrelated and what schools force them to. Be specific

It starts (eg) with requiring people to take English & so on. eg people getting degrees unrelated to medicine just to get in medical school. (Aka bribery to the college system.) And then those people aren't allowed to truly specialize. (eg focusing just one one potential job.)

You take English classes to build up and improve your writing abilities. During ur later years you will do lots and lots of research, the English classes are meant to prepare you for this.

But there's an even better reason, for example I'm a business major: we were required to take many liberal arts classes and that number got increased. We asked why, the dean said. We are replacing one business elective with a liberal arts elective because this is what recruiters and employees want. While kids from Asia sometimes score higher on exams, American students are preferred because they are more creative. Having good business acumen is wonderful, but also the creativity is an important factor.

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