Who's smarter: doctors or engineers?

[QueHuong]

Like I said in the original thread, I realize AT is a technical community so I was expecting a greater number of votes for engineers.

I also find it funny how some jackasses are saying this thread is stupid, and yet, waste their "precious" time to post a few paragraphs of replies...idiots.

Neither. Engineers are just number crunchers for designers and doctors... well some of the Asian "pre-med" majors that I know are dumb as rocks.

Wow, this overly pathetic jackass has some angst against Asians - maybe one beat him on the SATs. This is a doctor vs engineer thread, not an Asians vs you thread, dumbass.

 

[oblizue]

Only way to know is to be a hardcore engineer and a hardcore doctor, but I imagine both would be equally tough and fufilling. Overall I'd say if a person is smart and determined, he can be either. Side note though, both my parents are engineers and I want to become a doctor and my friend's parents are doctors, and he is doing engineering. Correlation maybe?

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Neither. Engineers are just number crunchers for designers and doctors... well some of the Asian "pre-med" majors that I know are dumb as rocks.

Number crunchers for designers? lol...and what major might be those designers - "designing"?

 

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: Mani
I'd say engineers, because going through school the most intelligent people I encountered were engineers. All Pre-med and med students have to do is LOADS of memorization, whereas the subject matter itself is not very difficult. Engineers have much more difficult to understand concepts and more importantly have to learn them inside and out in order to correctly apply them.

And as was previously mentioned, there is FAR more innovation and creativity coming from engineers than doctors.

enginerds = teh dumb

Spoken like a true idiot. What are you, another destined-for-McD's major?

have a BSEE and MSEE. I worked as a RF design engineer for 6 years with a major cellular phone manufacturer; I have now worked for 2 years as a field app engineer. Let me know if you want to go into publications and patents.

I have trained and worked with dozens of engineers (ranging from fresh sprouts to golden oldies) who range from digital to DSP and RF.

For every talented and intelligent engineer there are 10 that couldn't pull their heads from their own @ss. The resource pool is running dry these days.

Just in case we ever meet, yes, I want fries with that.

 

[Isla]

I'm just going to give my two cents, for what it's worth. (Not much, lol!!!)

My husband got his degree in Electrical Engineering. There is no doubt in my mind that the man is highly intelligent.

However, he has the intuition/sensitivity of a rock.

The best doctors I have known, on the other hand, have a combination of intelligence AND intuition. Medicine is a science and an art. A truly good doctor must use both sides of his brain (right and left).

Engineering, on the otherhand, seems to need less left brain than right brain. Or maybe it is vice versa. I can't remember which is which at the moment. Don't ask me, I took Psychology because it was easy.

Anyway, bottom line is, they are probably equally smart, just different strengths.

 

[eplebnista]

engineers

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: merlocka

Originally posted by: Mani
I'd say engineers, because going through school the most intelligent people I encountered were engineers. All Pre-med and med students have to do is LOADS of memorization, whereas the subject matter itself is not very difficult. Engineers have much more difficult to understand concepts and more importantly have to learn them inside and out in order to correctly apply them.

And as was previously mentioned, there is FAR more innovation and creativity coming from engineers than doctors.

enginerds = teh dumb

Spoken like a true idiot. What are you, another destined-for-McD's major?

have a BSEE and MSEE. I worked as a RF design engineer for 6 years with a major cellular phone manufacturer; I have now worked for 2 years as a field app engineer. Let me know if you want to go into publications and patents.

I have trained and worked with dozens of engineers (ranging from fresh sprouts to golden oldies) who range from digital to DSP and RF.

For every talented and intelligent engineer there are 10 that couldn't pull their heads from their own @ss. The resource pool is running dry these days.

Just in case we ever meet, yes, I want fries with that.

Obviously with the sheer number of engineers entering the workforce, there's going to be dilution in the talent pool. But making a stupid statement like "enginerds = teh dumb" doesn't make any sort of point besides making you look foolish.

By the way, I'm a BSEE that graduated from a top 5 engineering school, so maybe my view is skewed, but I've worked with all manner of engineers of all ages and backgrounds and I can safely say that overall they possess far more intelligence than most friends of mine in top med schools.

 

[her209]

A gynocologist is smart.

 

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: Mani

Originally posted by: merlocka

Originally posted by: Mani
I'd say engineers, because going through school the most intelligent people I encountered were engineers. All Pre-med and med students have to do is LOADS of memorization, whereas the subject matter itself is not very difficult. Engineers have much more difficult to understand concepts and more importantly have to learn them inside and out in order to correctly apply them.

And as was previously mentioned, there is FAR more innovation and creativity coming from engineers than doctors.

enginerds = teh dumb

Spoken like a true idiot. What are you, another destined-for-McD's major?

have a BSEE and MSEE. I worked as a RF design engineer for 6 years with a major cellular phone manufacturer; I have now worked for 2 years as a field app engineer. Let me know if you want to go into publications and patents.

I have trained and worked with dozens of engineers (ranging from fresh sprouts to golden oldies) who range from digital to DSP and RF.

For every talented and intelligent engineer there are 10 that couldn't pull their heads from their own @ss. The resource pool is running dry these days.

Just in case we ever meet, yes, I want fries with that.

Obviously with the sheer number of engineers entering the workforce, there's going to be dilution in the talent pool. But making a stupid statement like "enginerds = teh dumb" doesn't make any sort of point besides making you look foolish.

By the way, I'm a BSEE that graduated from a top 5 engineering school, so maybe my view is skewed, but I've worked with all manner of engineers of all ages and backgrounds and I can safely say that overall they possess far more intelligence than most friends of mine in top med schools.

well, i guess it's all relative

 

[GasX]

Engineers have four eyes, don't shower and couldn't get laid in a Thai whorehouse.

Doctors have trophy wives, join country clubs and drive BMW's

Who is smarter?

 

[LeStEr]

Originally posted by: quirky
stupid question.

 

[xuanman]

Originally posted by: her209
A gynocologist is smart.

no way..not when you have to look at all those nasty infections, stds, etc...

 

[jaydee]

Doctors don't have time to post on ATOT, this isn't going to be biased at all....

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: Isla
I'm just going to give my two cents, for what it's worth. (Not much, lol!!!)

My husband got his degree in Electrical Engineering. There is no doubt in my mind that the man is highly intelligent.

However, he has the intuition/sensitivity of a rock.

The best doctors I have known, on the other hand, have a combination of intelligence AND intuition. Medicine is a science and an art. A truly good doctor must use both sides of his brain (right and left).

Engineering, on the otherhand, seems to need less left brain than right brain. Or maybe it is vice versa. I can't remember which is which at the moment. Don't ask me, I took Psychology because it was easy.

Anyway, bottom line is, they are probably equally smart, just different strengths.

You just echoed my response earlier. People her do not understand the dynamics of keeping a person alive in any given circumstance, you do not get to brainstorm with others for weeks before taking action. Medicine is a great thing, I was a Nuke Engineer with the Navy, and paramedicine has been much more challenging for me. You are confronted with so many things and have to respond within seconds to them, not like engineering. I am on the low end of the totem pole too, a Dr. or Surgeon is amazing in what they can do. Much of it is, for the doctors, is memory and I will admit that. ER medicine is very different and dynamic.

Have a 72 year old patient with a heart attack and want to give him nitro spray? Good call, did you ask him if he uses viagra? If he does, and you give the nitro, you will kill him.

Like stated much earlier in this post, these are apples and oranges.

 

[kt]

How about Bio-tech engineers? They need to know about medical concepts as much as most medical school graduates.

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: kt
How about Bio-tech engineers? They need to know about medical concepts as much as most medical school graduates.

That would be a medical person.

 

[Larvae]

it doesnt take any brains to be a doctor

 

[Larvae]

however drs and engineers are both smarter than the retard who asked this question

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: Larvae
it doesnt take any brains to be a doctor

Tell that to the doctor that takes care of you next time. If you are lucky it will not be a trauma surgeon or ER doc.

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Engineers have four eyes, don't shower and couldn't get laid in a Thai whorehouse.

Doctors have trophy wives, join country clubs and drive BMW's

Who is smarter?

Funny, I don't wear glasses, am debating between an Infiniti and a BMW right now, and get laid on a pretty frequent basis. Yet I'm a fresh-out-of-college engineer...guess there's hope for us yet.

 

[Bignate603]

I'm thinking of the guys on my floor and the engineers are by far the brighter bunch then the premeds. The only premed I'd want to consider as being my doctor is doing biomed engineering. The premeds party like crazy, and they always end up knocking on the engineer's doors to answer some question, half the time we aren't in the class and can explain it to them.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Larvae
it doesnt take any brains to be a doctor

however drs and engineers are both smarter than the retard who asked this question

Why don't you just quit while you are still behind, asshat?

 

[CJZ]

There are a lot of misconceptions about doctors and medical students in this thread.

As a medical student (albeit a lazy one) I can personally attest to the fact that not all people in medicine are technologically challenged. And for the people wondering whether doctors and medical students have time to waste on ATOT, there are several docs and medical students who post here.

People seem to think that medicine is all about memorizing facts and then using those facts to come to some sort of conclusion. If it were only that simple. There is a great deal of analytical and yes creative thinking involved in trying to determine the cause of a patient's illness or problem and treating that cause. There is no simple algorithm that can be used to identify diseases (if there were we'd have far fewer people going undiagnosed for long periods of time) because each individual's response to the cause of the disease and the manifestations of the disease is different.

I do have to agree with the statements about premeds being annoying and somewhat stupid. There is a reason why only 1 in 3 people get into medical school.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

it's 1 in 2 now. they're letting in some asshats like me.

 

[SuperCyrix]

It is a well known fact that BestBuy employees are the smartest people on earth.