From what I’ve been told from friends, here (Austria) they (meaning: most doctors) do take it serious. This is understandable; when studying medicine, the by far larger part of college is devoted to knowing facts, the craftsmanship (if I may say so), then to doing medical science.
This also makes sense, as execution by using results already requires so much training (it is the only college course here which requires at least six years by default, not including “Turnus” (another three year probation period before somebody may practice without supervisor)).
The problem here is that for the general public the difference between a medical practitioner and any scientist is nil. Strangely enough, they usually do not make this error in engineering fields, for instance electrical engineer vs. physicist. May have to do something with the high status of doctors in society.
I recently found out why doctors cultivate a certain amount of professional arrogance when dealing with patients:
Most patients don’t understand whats behind their specific disease—and usually do not care. So if doctors where open to argument, or would state doubts more openly the patient might loose trust, and not do what he is ordered to do.
To instill an absolute belief in doctors powers might be very helpful for a big size of the population.
A lot of my own frustration in doctors experiences can be attributed to me being a non-standard patient that reads to much.
From what I’ve been told from friends, here (Austria) they (meaning: most doctors) do take it serious. This is understandable; when studying medicine, the by far larger part of college is devoted to knowing facts, the craftsmanship (if I may say so), then to doing medical science.
This also makes sense, as execution by using results already requires so much training (it is the only college course here which requires at least six years by default, not including “Turnus” (another three year probation period before somebody may practice without supervisor)).
The problem here is that for the general public the difference between a medical practitioner and any scientist is nil. Strangely enough, they usually do not make this error in engineering fields, for instance electrical engineer vs. physicist. May have to do something with the high status of doctors in society.
I recently found out why doctors cultivate a certain amount of professional arrogance when dealing with patients: Most patients don’t understand whats behind their specific disease—and usually do not care. So if doctors where open to argument, or would state doubts more openly the patient might loose trust, and not do what he is ordered to do. To instill an absolute belief in doctors powers might be very helpful for a big size of the population. A lot of my own frustration in doctors experiences can be attributed to me being a non-standard patient that reads to much.