<story><title>Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/doctors-are-watching-surgical-procedures-on-youtube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viraptor</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just medical residents. Doctors do refresh their knowledge from videos online. And they totally google for information. But I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s what many people imagine when reading it.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; How can doctors tell which videos are valid and which contain bogus information?&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re doctors. They had years of training and know the basics of what they&amp;#x27;re booking up. It&amp;#x27;s closer to experienced developers looking up specific usage for some tool which they&amp;#x27;re familiar with otherwise, rather than learning from scratch.&lt;p&gt;Sure, there&amp;#x27;s going to be some extreme bad cases, but those are bad doctors in general, the source of info is not relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Alternately:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Developers are turning to Stack Overflow to fill in gaps in their training&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a lot of garbage channels on YouTube, but there&amp;#x27;s no shortage of knowledgeable people too.&lt;p&gt;Nobody knows everything, and it turns out there are people on the internet who know things we don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/doctors-are-watching-surgical-procedures-on-youtube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viraptor</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just medical residents. Doctors do refresh their knowledge from videos online. And they totally google for information. But I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s what many people imagine when reading it.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; How can doctors tell which videos are valid and which contain bogus information?&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re doctors. They had years of training and know the basics of what they&amp;#x27;re booking up. It&amp;#x27;s closer to experienced developers looking up specific usage for some tool which they&amp;#x27;re familiar with otherwise, rather than learning from scratch.&lt;p&gt;Sure, there&amp;#x27;s going to be some extreme bad cases, but those are bad doctors in general, the source of info is not relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msla</author><text>When reading articles like this, here&amp;#x27;s a quick check: Replace &amp;quot;YouTube&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;bookstores&amp;quot; and see if you&amp;#x27;re still outraged. Anyone can write a book, and the bar to getting a book published has absolutely nothing to do with the book&amp;#x27;s accuracy. If &amp;quot;Chariots Of The Gods?&amp;quot; can get published, you &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; publishers aren&amp;#x27;t doing sanity testing or any other kind of checks for the reliability of the content. And yet doctors buy books from bookstores, and use them to learn things. How do doctors know they&amp;#x27;re not getting nonsense? Because they know what real information looks like.&lt;p&gt;This is the biggest reason for teaching the basics of a broad variety of subjects: If you know what real information looks like, and how the real field basically fits together, you&amp;#x27;re less likely to be taken in by absolute nonsense. OTOH, if you get bad information to start, you&amp;#x27;re going to evaluate all subsequent information on that standard, and reject good information because it doesn&amp;#x27;t jibe with the bad stuff you&amp;#x27;ve already internalized.</text></comment>