There is the old stereotype of a MD canceling appointments because of a Tee-Time conflict, after all.

Nah. My parents are doctors and I know quite a few surgeons. They might schedule their work around kids and family and whatnot, but none of them will opt to go to yoga or whatever when there is a pending surgery.

I know of only one guy who is a plastic surgeon and he is like that, but he’s also one of the best in his field and a bit of a prima donna...

Ok, I hear you. However, I cofounded a medical startup with 3 surgeons, seeing their day to day routine pretty closely, at their offices, at home, etc...

And they definitely worked around their own schedule. They either owned their own practice, or worked at a larger one, and controlled their own scheduling via their team. Surgeries are scheduled weeks or months in advanced. Only when an emergency came in they needed to shuffle things around - basically the same thing with engineers and planned deployments vs random outages.

> none of them will go to yoga with a pending surgery

Ok, yeah, of course they are not going to just up and leave when there is an appointment or deadline. That has nothing to do with whether or not they chose the time of that appointment in the first place.

> They might schedule their work around kids and family and whatnot

s/kids/exercise/g