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When young we are inexperienced, and so all our choices are gambles: who we pick as a mate, what we choose as a career, and who we find for advice.
There is a kind of hubris in youth which makes it possible to dare the new and untried without awareness of the risks. Sometimes this results in new discoveries and achievements which might never have been accomplished without that blithe and ignorant confidence.
If we end up in a public hospital, it is highly likely that some of the people who attend us will be student nurses, paramedics, registrars, and interns. We are not given the choice to reject their services. We have to rely on the supervision and double-checking of more experienced and qualified professionals in the system.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply hartfire. I know that all of your friends were strangers once upon a time. You have to start somewhere. I know that experience from time invested in doing is something tyros have not benefitted from at the start. Therefore if you have brain cancer in whom do you trust to operate? A novice/neophyte? Who does your tax returns? A certified tax accountant or someone who might have taken a course in bookkeeping once upon a time? Your car breaks down. Do you have it towed to an experienced mechanic or a kid in high school taking auto shop classes? Especially in life-or-death matters you go to the most experienced/knowledgeable and PROVEN track record
person don't you? :)
