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Doctors are getting a bit to uppity these days. They are not necessarily the smartest person in the room. Too many do not care one bit about freedom and liberty, and they definitely don’t know out to obtain security. They do not need to know if I own a gun. They do not need to know anything personal that I don’t want to tell them. And they certainly have no business forcing medicine or medical procedures on me that I do not approve.

Doctors are getting a bit to uppity these days. They are not necessarily the smartest person in the room.

My observation, having worked with them, is that you have to pretty much decide you want to be a doc at 18-20 years old. From then on, it's solid work taking up almost your entire life until you're about 30.

They end up becoming adults with an incredible amount of knowledge in a single small functional area, and almost no knowledge of anything else they didn't acquire as a teen.

Some of them are practically helpless when it comes to maintaining a vehicle, understanding compound interest, fixing an appliance, installing carpet, etc. They missed out on everything else in life except medicine.

This doesn't apply to all of them, but to a certain degree to many.

The problem being, they assume their hyper-knowledge of medicine translates into understanding at the same level about every other aspect of life. Not only are they not experts about anything else (generally speaking) they're some of the most ignorant about everything else (generally speaking).