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Episode Dr. Stone - Episode 17 discussion Spoiler

Dr. Stone, episode 17

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u/Battlefront228 Oct 26 '19

There’s a phrase in the episode that I think defines the whole arc: “humanity forgets that which it doesn’t need”. Medical textbooks don’t detail alternative treatments, they specify that the doctor prescribe an antibiotic (which we assume to be both plentiful and cheap). Doctors also aren’t expected to be able to synthesize their own medicines, that’s a pharmacists job. So a doctor in Stone world is next to useless, their knowledge is outdated and insufficient.

Senku on the other hand has internalized hundreds of years of scientific knowledge. He knows the base formula and how to derive it from. He’s not a doctor in the sense that he lacks the specialized knowledge and finesse that comes from med school, but when it comes to how chemicals react with the body he knows all there is.

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u/EternalPhi Oct 26 '19

Holy shit, haha. Imagine actually thinking people go through a fucking decade of medical school to learn how to prescribe what a book says to prescribe, what a joke.

And surgeons are useless too, right? Just cutting on the dotted line where the book tells them to like preschoolers with construction paper? Rofl.

The realm of medicine is a lot deeper than just the practice of diagnosis, dude. There are doctors who specialize in it known as diagnosticians, but you're basically saying that doctors didn't need to exist before penicillin was discovered, which is asinine. To suggest doctors are not necessary because the world has lost most of its medical advancements is borderline absurdity, are you being serious?

Senku is isekai-mc levels of OP in this show. He's basically a doctor, a scientist in applied chemistry, biology, physics, materials Science, etc. That you actually think they wouldn't have use for someone with his level of medical knowledge without the ability to synthesize antibiotics is completely and utterly dismissing the importance of medical experts entirely. You know so little about the world of medicine that you don't even know how little you know.

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u/ggtsu_00 Oct 26 '19

You know so little about the world of medicine that you don't even know how little you know.

Quality /r/iamverysmart material.

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u/EternalPhi Oct 26 '19

Dunning-Kruger effect