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Journeyman

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3. Always remember: 50% of all surgeons graduated in the lower half of their class . . .

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 05:44 PM

Jan 2018

I work with a variety of PhDs -- some medical, others scientific -- and my experience is some of them are brilliant, Renaissance brilliant, with a command of an incredibly breadth and depth of knowledge; others are savants only within their specialty; and some seem to have gotten where they are through genetics and connections.

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