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Why do engineers lack morals?

>>7898829
Stop mumbling:

>"multivariable DE's at uni for eng, 2nd order partial stuff with fourier transform and eigenfunction methods"

You are not impressive, engineering barely deals with hard math, you even take social sciences modules.

Why do engineers receive more social recognition than mathematicians, physicists and probably computer scientists?. Engineers are just technicians, who didn't study math or science at the same level of a mathematician or physicist. I am surprised when "normal" people say that engineers are math geniuses. I don't think that engineers "apply the raw theory of mathematicians", there are lots of real life problems that mathematicians solved (John von Neumann, Alan Turing, Leibniz, Maxwell, Bayes, Laplace, Babbage). Why do you think "normal" people do not value the work of real scientists?

The major difficulty I've had so far is with slowing down patient care. As I am a student and therefore by default know nothing, anything I do is, from the patient's point of view, a waste of their time. Now it is a useful learning experience for me, of course, but I can't help but feel that I'm getting in the way and pissing off the patient with inane questions and unnecessary examinations (or poorly done blood taking, for instance). This tends to be just a problem in your head though, and patients are amazingly cooperative. I always ask though, I know some people who just leap in with the attitude of "fuck you, you are in a teaching hospital, tough shit" and some doctors with that attitude as well unfortunately.
But trying to do a neurological exam on a 90+ lady post catastrophic stroke when she just wants to be aseep and can't understand anything... bad times.

With squeamishness etc, you get hardened very quickly. When we started deveral people were scared of needles, fainted in operating theatres, were sick in the morgue etc. This does not last. The only things that weird me out now are CSF and snot. If someone had a channeling sinocranial fistula I think I would die. I just made those up, I really hope they don't exist.