Slightly off topic but I've also had an experience a while ago with a doctor who thought that because she went to med school she is somehow qualified to tell me how to squat. My training partner and I got a few weeks' trial membership at the local VA so we thought that we'd go and check out the scene. The second day we went there happened to be a heavy squat day. I worked up to seven wheels a side and started wrapping from 5 wheels. So anyways I'm busy wrapping for my last set when I noticed that somebody had walked up to me and was now standing just in front of my feet. I finish the left leg and paying no attention to whoever is standing in front of me, start wrapping the right leg when all of a sudden this person standing at my feet says: "Hello, I'm Doctor So-and-so my research indicates that those bandages that you wear are very bad for your knees and I would recommend that you take them off."
Unfortunately this little lecture caught me so off guard that I could find no words to reply with. Instead, I sat there in total disbelief for a few seconds before I regained my composure. Without saying a word I finished wrapping and completed my last set. When I got out under the bar the good doctor had moved off but kept giving me dirty looks for the rest of the workout. Only afterwards did I think of suitable replies I could have hurled at her.
Seriously, some people think that because they have studied 7 years for an MBChB, they are now somehow experts on any subject under the sun. I should have asked of her: "And exactly how much can you squat, Sis?"...or..."Hi, my research has indicated that most doctors know squat about squat."
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