Before a doctor becomes a doctor, he goes to students for another 6 years and constantly teaches something. Therefore, reading a lot for a doctor is a common thing. And not only read, but literally cram. Then you have to regularly improve your qualifications, take exams all your life and read, teach, repeat. In medicine, everything changes very quickly, and you cannot stop.
Now there is a lot of professional medical information in Russian. But it would be better for the doctor to know English. Unfortunately, all the coolest things that happen in medicine take place mainly in the English-speaking world. Therefore, it is considered good form to read professional literature in English.
We doctors can't just google, we are only supposed to read a limited number of the correct resources on the web. There is verified information, and there are links to many professional medical societies in some particular specialties.
Ideally, doctors need to ride around the world from time to time and communicate in English with colleagues. This is the only way to get a complete picture of what is happening in your home area of medicine. That is how it should be. But it also happens in another way.
Sediments for medical articles
It happens that younger doctors do not really know the materiel, but they want to adjust medical knowledge to fit their ideas. Then they google it.
They do not take medical information in protected areas, but go to giant portals-sedimentation tanks of medical articles. All medical journals merge their publications there. There you can find the rationale for any of the craziest ideas.
This is because a huge army of scientists around the world is continuously churning out scientific research. From this heap you can always choose something to your liking.
This is not to say that giant repositories of articles are harmful. No, they are not harmful, but the articles and reviews received there should be taken very critically. That is, it turns out that a doctor who reads in English needs to separately learn to believe or not to believe medical articles. Many people don't like this approach.
Deceit bloggers
Now it has become fashionable among medical bloggers to make links to an English-language medical source that only roughly touches the problem under discussion.
That is, some modern doctors are so lazy that they don't even look into the text of an English article. They roughly pick something similar by the set of words in the title and all that.
Moreover, any reader, even without medical knowledge, could drive this article through an online translator and understand the general meaning. The problem is, readers don't want to strain. Unconscious medical bloggers take advantage of this and reinforce their texts with meaningless links in English. Have you met such?
And that's not the fun part.
Medical Journalists
Now a generation of medical journalists has grown up who are not doctors and have never learned materiel at all, but they know where to find the right sources of medical information.
They think that it is enough to gain access to a protected source and one can become almost a doctor. They also know English and try to translate medical terms. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes they are seriously wrong. Because, without learning materiel, it is better not to meddle in medicine.
Collision
See how interesting it turns out! Medical journalists know English, they know where to get the correct medical information, but they are grossly mistaken in medicine.
Doctors of the old school know medicine, do not know English well and do not always know where to get medical information.
Doctors of the old school are ashamed of not knowing English, they are afraid of modern medical journalists and do not contact them. And medical journalists do not meet with resistance and continue to periodically carry heresy.
It turns out that we, doctors, need not only "teach materiel", but also teach it in three languages at once.
Do I, an old school doctor, teach materiel? Of course! Those same protected English-speaking medical sources take $ 36 from me every month for access to their loved ones ...
