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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8783221" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Depends. What do we mean by &quot;doctor&quot; and how is the person educated? Sure, maybe if you need to graduate high school, graduate college, then get a doctorate you can't do that at 17 without extraordinary resources. You've also been taught literature, math, physics, history of various stripes, music, art, and many many other things. If you are a kid who at 10 years old lived with your parent who was a traveling doctor, and you were helping them and learning the art of medicine, then I'd certainly expect you to be a fairly knowledgeable doctor after 7 years of dedicated study. Maybe you can't calculate the precise milligrams of medicine, or you can't perform brain surgery, but you have been aiding in the treatment of patients for seven years, and so you know the most common things, how to treat them, and a variety of the less common things and how to treat those.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8783221, member: 6801228"] Depends. What do we mean by "doctor" and how is the person educated? Sure, maybe if you need to graduate high school, graduate college, then get a doctorate you can't do that at 17 without extraordinary resources. You've also been taught literature, math, physics, history of various stripes, music, art, and many many other things. If you are a kid who at 10 years old lived with your parent who was a traveling doctor, and you were helping them and learning the art of medicine, then I'd certainly expect you to be a fairly knowledgeable doctor after 7 years of dedicated study. Maybe you can't calculate the precise milligrams of medicine, or you can't perform brain surgery, but you have been aiding in the treatment of patients for seven years, and so you know the most common things, how to treat them, and a variety of the less common things and how to treat those. [/QUOTE]

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