I enjoyed this......

[larrym]

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Real story happened with famous Heart Surgeon Dr. Smith. He had done many heart operations.

A mechanic was removing the cylinder heads from the motor of a car when he spotted the famous heart surgeon in his shop, who was standing off to the side, waiting for the service manager to come to take a look at his car.
The mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hello Doctor! Please come over here for a minute."
The famous surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic.
The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked argumentatively, "So doctor, look at this. I also open hearts, take valves out, grind 'em, put in new parts, and when I finish this will work as a new one. So how come you get the big money, when you and me is doing basically the same work?"
The doctor leaned over and whispered to the mechanic.....

"TRY TO DO IT WHEN THE ENGINE IS RUNNING".

 

[1fast6]

yeah but if the mechanic leaves a tool in the engine or mis-diagnoses something knowone dies!

reminds me of a saying we had in the airforce when i was a jet mechanic. "takes a college degree to break them and a high school diploma to fix them."

 

[charlief1]

I will point out that if a tech screws up a brake job or a doc screw up in general someone can die. The biggest difference is that the public will raise hell about the doc and the tech will loose his job.

 

[novaderrik]

they do actually stop the heart for a lot of open heart procedures, so the "do it while the engine's running" thing isn't totally accurate..

 

[turbofabricator]

If a heart surgeon screws up, ONE person dies. If I screw up at my job (building commercial aircraft) I can kill over 550 people. Now explain to me why a cardiologist makes more than I do? If you are a cardiologist, think about how important my job is next time you are sitting on my plane. I have built more than 750 of the worlds favorite jets. And NO....... it ain't Airbus. Most airline mechanics call Airbus "Brand X" I am proud to say none of the airplanes I have worked on have become "lawn darts". 30+ years of building aircraft engines and structures/systems and for some odd reason they all have worked. And I only have an Associates degree. But then again I don't have to stick my finger up some fat dudes butt. THAT'S worth $300,000 a year.