Anesthesiology as intuition without rigor: a funny math/physics debate analogy
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-10-13
Quoting the debate — math finds intuition without rigor useless, physics finds rigor without intuition useless — Quintin Pope adds a comedic analogy: anesthesiologists' job is essentially "PATIENT STOP SCREAMING AND NOT DIE. IT WORK SOMEHOW," a hilariously reductive intuition for a deep discipline.
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