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[–] variants@possumpat.io 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A live human body and a dead human body have the same number of particles. Structurally there's no difference.

[–] exanime@lemmy.today 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My son is really into math and died laughing when I sent him this meme

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 27 points 1 year ago
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Sentient@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

No one calls you that bro

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Doctor means "to teach." MDs need to stop using it (unless they work for a teaching hospital or as a researcher) and we wouldn't have this problem.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem mostly arises in English. I speak several other languages and all of them have a separate word for doctor(phD) and doctor(healer or whatever). I never understood why it is that way in english.

[–] Ghostie21@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prior to the start of modern medicine there was massive distrust with anyone who tried to treat people, as many of these were scams. When MDs started to actually understand health they started cooping the term doctor to instill trust since people knew that meant the person had been professionally educated, then they also managed to get laws passed so while anyone could call themselves a healer, only trained professionals could call themselves MDs. Eventually, doctor came to mean MD in English instead of PhD.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Never knew that. Interesting story.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's the same confusion in French and Spanish, that's a lot of people covered already. In English there's physician (which Latin people will confuse with physicist), in French there's médecin and médico in Spanish, to avoid the ambiguity.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

🦆<(I'm not a medical doctor.)

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Minus two

But...what... I'm the mathematician and I'm pretty sure your friend dying is just minus one.

Minus.......two....

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

This just means minus one person due to death, right?

[–] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

He's a doctor in twitch chat

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha! Fucking wrecked.