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Doctors[1] or say pilots are skilled professions and difficult to master and deserve respect yes , but they do not need high levels of intelligence to be good at. They require many other skills like taking decisions under pressure or good motor skills that are hard, but not necessarily intelligence.

Also not knowing something is hardly a criteria , skilled humans focus on their areas of interest above most other knowledge and can be unaware of other subjects.

Fields medal winners for example may not be aware of most pop culture things doesn’t make them not able to do so, just not interested

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[1] most doctors including surgeons and many respected specialists, some doctors however do need that skills but those are specialized few and generally do know how to use email




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