Also, depending on the country, the job may be extreme hours, low pay (GPs in particular), and huge stress coming from legal risk. While that does not excuse general assholery, after hearing a lot of stories from the field, including from my brother who's just finishing his medical degree, I'm much more sympathetic to even rude doctors. Theirs is a thankless profession.

>Theirs is a thankless profession.

That seems like a nice outline of the symptoms, but can we get a diagnosis?

:P

Seen the average size of a GP's house in the UK? It's not a coincidence that they often have expensive hobbies like flying, yachting, etc..

GPs earn about £50,000 to £80,000.

Incorrect:

'The average GP earns an average salary of £90,000, but doctors can earn more by linking up surgeries, making record earnings by managing tens of thousands of patients. Figures revealed more than 200 ‘Super GPs’ in the NHS earned more than £200,000 a year in 2015/16. Four were on salaries between £400,000 and £450,000 while 11 were paid between £300,000 and £350,000 a year.'

'Britain’s highest earning GP paid at least £700,000 a year'

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-britain-highest-paid-gp-...

I understand there are those for whom criticism of the NHS is sacrilege, but the current situation doesn't look much like sustainable socialised medicine to me.

Your comment violates HN's guidelines and I suppose code of conduct if there is one.

And that is perfect for almost every single one of the cases they will ever see.

I don't think that's a fair statement because the logical analysis helps so much with memorization, viz the story telling technique, and vice versa, the aptitude for logistics will not pan out without a keen memory. A lot of the required memory goes to logical connections not merely to longish Latin names under picture book illustrations.

Story telling has nothing to do with logic. It's just making stuff up. Not really something I would look for in my doctor ... even if it helps him remember.

I don't see a story in your post. It's incoherent and doesn't connect. The conclusion must be incoherent.

> it's the best memorizers that become doctors.

Ridiculous comment. I'm embarrassed for you. Remember to say that to all the great doctors that are constantly saving lives, inventing new treatments, and being ridiculed by their own community when trying to introduce change.

I agree with dcbadacd.

That's a feature, not a bug.

Maybe in the emergency room, but not for a non-emergency doctor. I'm generally not looking for the person who can diagnose and treat me the fastest, I'm looking for the person who can diagnose and treat me the best. Consequently, in the emergency room I'm looking for a memorizer, but the other 97% of the time I'm looking for a researcher.

> I'm generally not looking for the person who can diagnose and treat me the fastest

Not directly but you relay on the system that can diagnose and treat you cheapest and, since manhours is always most expensive item, fastest.