The state’s surgeon general grants parents permission to send unvaccinated children to school during a measles outbreak, risking their health and that of others.
Been around a lot of Medical Dr’s (have a few friends from university).
Your average Medical Dr’s is not a scientist. They are mostly diagnosticians. The follow the methods and guidelines developed by research scientist. As such they often have large holes in their understanding of how things work.
While most MD’s/DO’s aren’t researchers, they are very well represented among the clinical scientists who develop guidelines and methods. Guidelines can’t be applied in all cases, so understanding the underpinnings of the disease is still important. Most have also done research at some level at some point in their training, and interpretation of clinical research is a core part of medical education. And they get an extensive basic science curriculum in addition to studying clinical science.
The issue he’s commenting on here though is the very basic central dogma of molecular biology, he would have learned this in undergrad and would have been tested on it medical school entrance exams before even getting accepted for more training. And of course a doctor needs a working understanding of genetics, there is genetic disease in every area of medicine. Florida’s surgeon general is just being deliberately misleading.
Been around a lot of Medical Dr’s (have a few friends from university).
Your average Medical Dr’s is not a scientist. They are mostly diagnosticians. The follow the methods and guidelines developed by research scientist. As such they often have large holes in their understanding of how things work.
While most MD’s/DO’s aren’t researchers, they are very well represented among the clinical scientists who develop guidelines and methods. Guidelines can’t be applied in all cases, so understanding the underpinnings of the disease is still important. Most have also done research at some level at some point in their training, and interpretation of clinical research is a core part of medical education. And they get an extensive basic science curriculum in addition to studying clinical science.
The issue he’s commenting on here though is the very basic central dogma of molecular biology, he would have learned this in undergrad and would have been tested on it medical school entrance exams before even getting accepted for more training. And of course a doctor needs a working understanding of genetics, there is genetic disease in every area of medicine. Florida’s surgeon general is just being deliberately misleading.