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thruway515··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
You'll have to ask the OP what they meant by 10x. I assume they meant it in the programmer/hacker sense of producing more work in the same amount of time than their peers or being a 'rockstar'
thruway515··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
No it's not like any other field. There's no such thing as a 10x doctor. A '10x' doctor is just as likely to kill you as any other especially when it comes to experimental never before done procedure. In fact a 10x doctor like Qiu is more likely to take risks. This is medicine not a software shop where we measure productivity by number of commits or number of surgeries per hour except by 10x you mean 10times more likely to be careful and ethical