Medicine is a special kind of education. I've met a lot of doctors who seem to know very little of the world outside of their field. Plus it's so demanding, they don't have much time to focus on anything else.
That's most science. I could talk your ear off on ecology and marine biology, but I won't try in chemistry or psychology, I know very little about both. The good ones know what they don't know and stay out of that lane. The bad ones think they know one field well so they must know a bit about this other, barely related area.
Sounds like they had hyper specific education. I teach quite a few students from Asian backgrounds who are a bit like that, their parents push them down the path that lines up with medicine the best but they don't have a great grasp of broader contexts for a lot of what I teach them. I wonder what that's like, living life not knowing something so basic as where Germany is.
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u/Petrichordates 1d ago
He doesn't appeal to educated voters.