reverse education...what a crcck.
Ortho doesn't undergo reverse education, we undergo re-education. We have are one of the most specialized areas in medicine and we get virtually no orthopaedic education in medical school. We have to learn volumes and volumes of new information. We also happen to be one of the busiest specialties around and don't have time to manage general medical problems of patients. We also don't have time to keep up on what is new in the literature regarding medical managment, so it is really not wise for us to try to manage medical problems that we have not been exposed to or read on in years. It is better for someone that specializes in that area of medicine to manage that, just as it is better for an orthopod to manage orthopaedic injuries rather than an internist.
If any of your loved ones ever end up with a major orthopaedic problem, such as a cervical spine injury, open book pelvis fx, open big bone fx, etc, will you be asking your internist to manage it, or one of those dumb orthopods who have spent years trying to master a very complex specialty.
You can make all the jokes you want and I will laugh right along with you, but don't try to say that pods become dumber because they don't keep on top of everything they learned in school. If that is the case, then the only specialty that are not dumber after residency is family prcatice. They are the only ones that attempt to keep up on all aspects of medicine.
