{"id":182277,"date":"2015-11-03T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/03\/of-course-the-germans-have-a-word-for-it\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:16:00","slug":"of-course-the-germans-have-a-word-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/03\/of-course-the-germans-have-a-word-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course, the Germans Have a Word for It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/i75Z4tx.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/i75Z4tx.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fachidiot\">Fachidiot<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFachidiot&amp;edit-text=\">Google Translate<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It means someone who has achieved a measure of accomplishment in their own field, but area complete blithering idiot outside of this narrow area of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Who epitomizes this word?<\/p>\n<p>Who could it be?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I dunno, maybe a world renowned neurosurgeon who makes Donald Trump look smart and sane Presidential Candidate by comparison?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising to find a Surgeon in this position.<\/p>\n<p>One of the open secrets of the medical profession is that doctors work with their minds, and surgeons work with their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Former Senate leader Bill Frist is another classic example of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Surgery is not a &#8220;big picture&#8221; line of work.  You open you fix, you close.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosis, by contrast is a process by which you take a constellation of sometimes conflicting information, and create a synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>One of these things involves a big picture and critical thinking.  <\/p>\n<p>The other is surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fachidiot (Google Translate) It means someone who has achieved a measure of accomplishment in their own field, but area complete blithering idiot outside of this narrow area of expertise. Who epitomizes this word? Who could it be? Oh, I dunno, maybe a world renowned neurosurgeon who makes Donald Trump look smart and sane Presidential Candidate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1074,1003,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-medical","category-philosophy","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}