I hear this all the time on the wards: "You can never know enough." True? I have a lenghthy post planned in which I will try to address the question of how much doctors need to know. When do you know enough? Does someone else decide when you know enough to practice competently as a physician, or does the physician himself have to decide?
I'm already feeling this vein of thought beginning to spiral out of control, so I'm going to bed. But, in case you were worried, James Logan and his FX 7026 are alive and well...and tired (James anyway, not so much the computer).
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I've heard the opposite from surgeons about esoteric medical knowledge. "We don't need to know that much abotu the ECG features of pericarditis, what do yo think we are, a socially retarded physician?" Then the physicians turn around and say "now that is an answer I would expect from a nursing aid student or a surgeon".