--- Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some odd reason, I am intimidated by people > who manage to master > both medicine and programming. <snip> > I wonder why?
I have come across that sentiment in India but not in the US. Possibly related to the perception in India that if you are "good in biology" you go into medicine and if "you are good in math" you go into engineering and the two are mutually exclusive. In the US most people entering medical school have already done a Bachelors sometimes in engineering, economics, mathematics or another medically "unrelated" field. I found medicine initially intimidating because of the vast amount of information thrown at you; however there are few, if any, deep truths, insights or fundamental principles running through clinical medicine. On the other hand when I tried my hand at programming it seemed very simple and straight-forward. It took me several years of formal training to realize that the crux of programming lies in control of complexity which by no means is a trivial task. Shyam ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
