How Can Doctors Overcome the "Dumb Old Doctor" Stereotype?

I'm just a dumb old doctor. Now, I know not all of you have a Southern accent, but the reality is, is that I hear this all the time. And by the way, I hear everything I'm going to be sharing with you, I hear from my doctors on a regular basis. And so what I hear is, I'm just a dumb old doctor. Really? Dumb old doctor? You're like the smartest people on the planet, okay? You're brilliant. Less than, what, 2% or 3% of you make it through all the way to the end to be practicing medicine from those that started even pre-med or med school. I mean, the numbers are staggering. I couldn't make it through organic chemistry if you gave me the answers to the test and 3 weeks to answer them. Okay, so this is the first big lie, is that I'm just a dumb old doctor. And you know, there's a bunch of lies that are told to you, and a lot of them are told to you via medical school, and they're designed, in my view, to keep you in hock. They're designed to keep you working on the Viking slave ship of insurance-based care. Okay, so they start with going, "You're just a doctor. You're not very smart in a lot of other areas, but you're just a doctor. You're very smart in medicine, but you know you're not very smart anything else." Really? Because last time I checked, if you're smart, you have the ability to go do research, and you have the ability to go figure things out and understand the science of things. Okay, so don't believe that you're just a doctor, just a dumb old doctor.