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Boomer doctors aren't dead yet, and haven't learned anything since the 70s.
But seriously, think about whatever industry you're in. Surely there are the 'old guys' who haven't kept up with the progress, but are still around kind of doing a poor job of things. Not all old people, surely, but a fair number. At least, that's how it is in IT.
Apparently you have never heard of required CME's.
That still doesn’t mean they recommend “abuse.” Every doctor in the US must renew their medical license every few years and that means taking continuing medical education classes. Nobody is recommending therapy from the 70s anymore.
Also, it’s still vague about what this “abuse” is so it’s hard to debunk a vague accusation.
https://neuroclastic.com/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in/
ABA therapy. That is the abuse being referred to.
This article is really really good, I think it deserves to be a post of it’s own. This quote is the best description of the way I experience being verbal that I’ve found:
So you've already made up your mind that it's something that needs to be debunked before you even know what "abuse" refers to?
It's shit like this that keeps hurting credibility of anyone defending established practices, right or wrong.
I have a distinct recollection of professors at a UNC Chapel Hill department cocktail party comparing notes on their psychoanalysts in the late 2000's.
Psychologists are not the same as physicians or psychiatrists. Your 20 year old anecdote isn’t proof of anything, sorry.
It was a poor attempt at humor. Sorry. EDIT: oh, it’s you. Hello Newman. Destroyer of humor. Psychoanalysts can have MDs. They’re a relic of one aspect of health that mainly and rightly died out in the 70s. There.
Ahh yes old people are dumb and bad, what a highly enlightened take you have there, you spend way too much time online
Anyone who willingly lumps a bunch of people into a one size fits all category tells me all I need to know about that person
Not sure if intentional, but hilarious either way
Okay so mostly all old people.. got it.
And only in your limited worldview in your profession.. somehow that didn’t seem to make it any better of an argument for me
You work in IT yet seem to know the training levels and requirements for doctors or perhaps you are just generalizing once again
I hate that I'm annoyed enough to provide receipts for something so obvious as "skills and ability decline with age"
https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28394065/
Do I need to have receipts to show that pre teens and teens generally have less knowledge than 30 year olds? Pretty sure I don’t because I wasn’t arguing what you are posting receipts about
Of course aging affects skills and abilities and when you start to get to the end of lifespans, memory and knowledge can also fall off, I’m not saying that doesn’t happen I replied to the idiotic statement that “Boomer doctors aren't dead yet, and haven't learned anything since the 70s.”
A blanket statement of idiocy is what that is.
Ah, well, I can't exactly force you to understand hyperbole. The fact that the next phrase was "but seriously" should have indicated the lack of seriousness of the first statement.
I understand hyperbole, that’s my whole problem, hyperbole used in arguments is like trying to argue with a chimp at that point
Now if what you actually meant was that you were being sarcastic then that’s fine I can get in on the joke you are attempting to make but I can’t exactly force you to understand sarcasm
Damn, it sounds like you're lumping a bunch of people into a one size fits all category, telling me everything I need to know about you. (I believe that 70% of people are liquid, so that should tell you everything you need to know about me)
Just got around to replying and I’ll use this as my reply to you and Cryo..
If an individual person (not a group of people in case that’s not obvious enough) makes statements like all the black people I know are criminals, all the Jewish people I’ve ever met only care about money, every woman I’ve ever dealt with is emotional, boomer doctors aren’t dead yet and haven’t learned anything since the 1970s
Then yes in general I kinda think that tells me all I need to know about that person, they are using blanket statements about groups of people which is pretty idiotic, they later said they were being hyperbolic, okay fine still a dumb statement however