[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Toptomcat

On the other hand, considering the case of the Physician default, so very many useful medical skills default from it that it can be tempting to build even a specialist surgeon as someone who defaults from their sky-high Physician skill.

That tendency exists in Gurps in quite a few ways, most noticeably high stats for which talents don't do enough in my opinion.
Without that inner voice saying, "Stop that.", when faced with immersion breaking write ups, I doubt many RP games could survive for long.

Remember the old all mages have exactly IQ 14 and Magery 3 just to get that 1 pt. 15 spell skill?