Do they not have anything else to put up on their wall? Perhaps an actual medical degree?
‘I’m self-taught,’ is not what you want to hear your doctor say when you ask them where they learnt medicine. You also would not want them to launch into a passionate diatribe against the so-called ‘medical elite’ who wish to hide the wonders of modern medicine behind a paywall combined with what he calls an imaginary intellectual barrier.
“Oh, I need to be ‘accepted’ into your institute? Accepted by who? I don’t care if that information is readily available online, I didn’t know it!” they yelled as they fiddled with the Halloween store-bought stethoscope around their neck. “It’s a big club and they don’t want me there. We’re being treated like vermin. At least I’m bothering to learn medicine and not becoming a chiropractor. Did you know they aren’t even doctors? They don’t go to med school and people give them their spines! That’s an important part of the human anatomy! I learnt that in the fourth LinkedIn video.”
“I’m currently learning surgery on Skillshare,” they continued. It appears this may have been an attempt to assure me of their talent. I gave him an approving nod as he shoved a tongue depressor way too far down my throat. Well, credit to him. Not a lot of people would take the time and effort to illegally practice medicine. It shows initiative. It shows drive. It shows a passion to help those in need. Does this mean I trust him with a scalpel? He just called it a skullypill, so probably not.
But hey, I’m just here for a sprained ankle. Simple solution right? Should be out of here as soon as he’s done speaking into his own fake stethoscope and making his case for why regular surgeons are nowhere near as skilled as a self-taught ones.
In my opinion, the words – “I’m a self-taught surgeon” are what you hear moments before a man stabs you and then remembers he was supposed to anesthetise you first. And also NOT stab you.
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