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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a thought experiment for everyone: suppose you are getting heart surgery this week and there are two surgeons available.  You can google them and find they are both 40-45 yo and worked in the same hospital for the last 15 years. One of them graduated from Harvard Medical and the other graduated from some osteopathic medical college in the Carribbean.  You know nothing else about them. Who are you picking?

Everyone who chose the Harvard grad should accept the fact that the college name means something (however small that might be).

Everyone who chose the osteopathic merical college in the Carribbean grad is lying and making bad-faith arguments on this board.[/quote]

I had a heart attack in 2020. They took me to the hospital and said I would have open heart surgery the next morning. I did not even ask my surgeon what medical school she went to. I assumed she was board certified and experienced, and that was what mattered. She did her job and I’m still alive today.

So tell me, am I lying and arguing in bad faith when I say what medical school you attend doesn’t matter?[/quote]

+1. If they are board certified, they passed the rigorous testing to earn that.  Only time I might care is if it's a specialized treatment---and then I care about the specific doctors expertise, how many procedures they have successfully performed, what is their success vs failure rate, etc.  So if they went to Bahamas U Med school and are now the top rated Heart Surgeon for my type of heart cancer/heart issue, then I'm selecting them, and it's for their expertise and work after medical school, not their work during med school[/quote]

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