Doctors are routinely accused of being callous towards their patients’ suffering; of treating them like projects to complete. Here’s my perspective, for what it’s worth.
I have always maintained that after a certain while of being in a profession, barring a few exceptions, you become your profession. A construction worker will behave like a construction worker. Doctors are no exception, and you can pretty much tell a doctor apart from, say, a lawyer or a journalist.
