>But there are lots and lots of doctors who's ethics say that steak dinners with drug reps are off limits.
There are a lot more that think it's not their job to care about those things. They think they are only responsible for curing the sick regardless of time or money constraints or conflicts of interest.
They say they don't do this, especially in regards to money, but talk to all sorts of docs about how much of their patients' time they waste every day and they get real defensive. They think they are owed anything and everything and fuck running an efficient practice, fuck your time because they're a doctor and they are over in a different room performing miracles.
I personally know a bunch of doctors and you are right, they are pretty arrogant. Each one of them is also brilliant. I'm actually pretty close to some of them so in one or two cases I'm biased.
They actually have a hard time being "efficient" in the sense that you use the word, because if they don't run every possible test when they miss something and get sued they will have to answer for it.
Why are there so many lawsuits? Because the first thing that insurance companies do is lawyer up.
I'm not saying that doctors aren't also bastards sometimes, but Americans also think that doctors should deliver healthcare like a retail service and that's just stupid.
Your whole "in a different room performing miracles" might actually be running late because they are double booked and behind schedule due to trying to be thorough with an old woman who has compounded issues related to multiple diseases. That woman is also a person, just like you and the doctor might be trying to spend some time trying to help them even though insurance and the shitty clinic they work in only want them to spend 10 minutes with any one patient. That may sound efficient until you need to spend 20 minutes to do something right. Then the schedule is effed the rest of the day and people will act like you are trying to do something to them by being late.
Its hard for me to say this, because generally I hate people, but not everything is intended as a slight against you.
There are a lot more that think it's not their job to care about those things. They think they are only responsible for curing the sick regardless of time or money constraints or conflicts of interest.
They say they don't do this, especially in regards to money, but talk to all sorts of docs about how much of their patients' time they waste every day and they get real defensive. They think they are owed anything and everything and fuck running an efficient practice, fuck your time because they're a doctor and they are over in a different room performing miracles.
The egos in medicine do WAY more harm than good.