I hear what you’re saying, but we tested MDs in a variety of fields. Oncology, endocrinology, everything under the sun. The worst test I ever had was when I was testing a HIV medicine for children. The correct dose was super important. If you’re off just a little, it can fukk up the medicine. 75% of our MDs failed at basic math and couldn’t determine the right dosage. I went back to the pharmaceutical company and told them this. They couldn’t believe it, so we had to show them the recordings. They were like
That was the worst example, but other studies with MDs produced similiar results. All my coworkers felt the same way. We even had a meeting about it. The higher-ups said that, yeah, we’ve been seeing this trend forever.
The pharmaceutical company said that most doctors use a computer program to make decisions, and that is why we saw so many errors. I guess that’s fair, but prescribing the correct dosage by hand just involves looking at a table and performing basic math. They couldn’t do it. We all got to thinking, if they can’t perform basic math, what else are they doing wrong?