Thread by @Suburbanbella

@CNotlof Thank you for your sentiments, greatly appreciated. Before I answer your question, allow me to give you the perspective from which my opinion arises. I am a descendant of people who were lynched, blinded, mutilated, etc. for daring to learn to read and write. But they learned

@CNotlof 2)anyway. One of the greatest orators of all time, and a former slave, Frederick Douglass, believed that the ability to read and write was the first step to freedom. That history enabled me to be where I am today. I was able to expound on my literacy skills to become what I

@CNotlof 3)chose, which was a physician. I began lecturing on the value of education while still in college. I never took my education for granted, I viewed it as a gift provided by those who came before. My parents sacrificed a great deal to move us into a neighborhood where Blacks were

@CNotlof 4)not welcome, so that my siblings and I could obtain a fantastic public education, which we did. It is my sincere belief that education should be valued the same as gold--I believe it is worth much more. It provides liberation in so many ways: from poverty, from social and

@CNotlof 5)psychological restrictions(mental prisons), etc. This gift, this tool called education, should be respected for the immense opportunities it provides. It is why I get so incensed when I witness it's devaluation for superficial, self-serving purposes. It mocks what many have

@CNotlof 6)sacrificed to acquire. In answer to your question, no, I do not believe physicians are overeducated. Medicine is a dynamic, expansive entity. If our education was not what it is, we could not expand with it. Diseases/disorders such as AIDS, Kawasaki disease, maple syrup urine

@CNotlof 7)disease and and other IEMs, the discoveries of PCN, polio, measles and now COVID vaccines might not have been discovered if our education had remain limited and invariable. We are witnessing the damage done by those untrained in medicine. There is no fake it until you make it.

@CNotlof 8)There is no apprenticeship so exceptional that it can replace the formal model under which we currently exist. An abbreviated education results in abbreviated knowledge. When one accepts that as sufficient, then one has accepted mediocrity as their standard. Physicians tend to

@CNotlof 9)be high-achieving and/or intensely driven students by nature. In general, physicians pursue excellence in their craft. We don't dummy down, we smarten up. So no, we are not over-educated. We are educated just right. 📚🩺@pppforpatients

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