Saying a brain surgeon must be smart because he/she operates on brains is sort of like saying the guy who prints the answer key to an IQ test is a genius.
Does neurosurgery require extraordinary intelligence? No
Magic hands? No
Gifted technique only the rarest of the rare can be taught? No
There is one thing that most neurosurgeons do possess that most of us don't.
A severe personality disorder.
Because the job is so stressful and they are so gifted they are just weird? No
Because most of them are colossal assholes who thought becoming a neurosurgeon would make them godlike.
I mean how bright could you be to go into a field where a very high percentage of your patients suffer permanent brain injury at your hands and yet you still believe yourself godlike?
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