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He is actually considered one of the most accomplished cardiac surgeons of his generation
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-dumb-celebrities-who-are-way-smarter-than-you-think/#ixzz2m1LHJzuc
Which says almost nothing about his base of knowledge outside of cardiac surgery. Surgeons are extremely specialized in their breadth of knowledge, because their job requires them to have an extremely deep base of knowledge in their given specialty. That's why you have cardiac surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, etc. You wouldn't want one trying to do the other's job, and you certainly wouldn't want a heart surgeon trying to diagnose you for, say, meningitis. It is, by necessity, outside of their field. Surgeons are more knowledgeable than the average person about medicine, but a cardiac surgeon's grasp of HGH levels is unlikely to be much higher than the average person who graduated with a B.S. in bio.