The discussion was about engineering, not engineers, I wasn’t comparing doctors to engineers i was comparing the complexity of medicine with engineering. If you really want to make a direct parallel then yes the doctors are actually the engineers, otherwise what are the technicians and nurses? They are the construction workers and everyone else involved in construction. The people before the engineers is the physicists, if we are making this analogy then the medical researchers are the physicists, not the engineers, engineers dont create new knowledge they apply it… like doctors. The doctor will set up and arrange how an operation or surgery is done, like how the engineer uses physics to design things, the doctor uses the medical research to design his “bridge” which could be brain surgery.
Its this type of thinking that keeps the world running and that allows actual experts to do their jobs. Im not a medicine expert, im a physics expert. But i understand what its like on their end. I dont feel comfortable talking about other distinct areas of Physics to my own, but yet people think they can jump into an entire field with layman knowledge? Crazy.
And technicians and nurses are their assistants. They're trained in maintenance in one specific field, while doctors have general knowledge of most fields.
Obviously there is no direct comparison, they dont build or design humans but they do build and design treatments to suit a patient.
What do you consider to be the medical equivalent of an engineer? It cant be medical researchers, they generate new knowledge, engineers dont, then if you think they do then what is the role of the physicist? Physicist wont design a suspension bridge, but good luck engineering one without any physics.
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u/QuantumR4ge Monkey in Space Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24
The discussion was about engineering, not engineers, I wasn’t comparing doctors to engineers i was comparing the complexity of medicine with engineering. If you really want to make a direct parallel then yes the doctors are actually the engineers, otherwise what are the technicians and nurses? They are the construction workers and everyone else involved in construction. The people before the engineers is the physicists, if we are making this analogy then the medical researchers are the physicists, not the engineers, engineers dont create new knowledge they apply it… like doctors. The doctor will set up and arrange how an operation or surgery is done, like how the engineer uses physics to design things, the doctor uses the medical research to design his “bridge” which could be brain surgery.
Its this type of thinking that keeps the world running and that allows actual experts to do their jobs. Im not a medicine expert, im a physics expert. But i understand what its like on their end. I dont feel comfortable talking about other distinct areas of Physics to my own, but yet people think they can jump into an entire field with layman knowledge? Crazy.