every once in a while you end up in an ER where they aren’t just throwing around gallows humor, they’re being downright ableist. that’s a whole different kind of fun.

There may be an academic name for it, but I call it the Min-Max Effect. Technical experts in demanding fields (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) frequently spend all their time and effort learning and developing their technical expertise, at the expense of everything else. This creates a lot of brilliant doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., who are absolutely clueless about anything outside their specialty.

It’s probably not helped by the fact that school for those fields is quite expensive, so we might expect those who grew up wealthy to be more likely to graduate; poorer students rely on scholarships and loans, and even part time work.