It’s just terrible! And it’s a recurring phenomenon in so many other fields, where we excuse someone who’s just an unrelenting jerk because they’re a “genius.” There’s Steve Jobs, David O. Russell, Bill Gates, and a whole host of others.

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yes! generally the asshole genius trope has done much damage. people who fancy themselves as geniuses (typically without merit) think it gives them license to be jerks

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You can argue this all you want, but you really do not want the doctor who doesn’t get updates or those critical “I have a bad feeling about this patient” chats because the nurses avoid them at all costs 🤷‍♀️

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The “doctor who’s a condescending ass but really smart and always gets the right answer so who cares” trope in TV is actively harmful because the audience is bad at differentiating that from reality, and the reality is that those doctors miss things because no one wants to interact with them.

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This is why you should not "ask ChatGPT" or any other "AI" tool as if it were a search engine. Nor trust the "AI summary" at the top of Google.

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