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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Ask a ~~physician~~ physicist to build a bridge, it collapse but he knows exactly how and why it collapsed.

Ask an engineer to do it, it holds but he has no idea how it's holding together.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow med school has really upped their game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Doctors Without Bridges"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where we're going we don't need bridges

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

😎

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the word you're looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is "physicien" and physician is "médecin", very different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

(And Russian)