No, actually, that patient needs a doctor who wants to respond.
That can be taught. It's not inborn.
But it's like what you said earlier --- that kind of schedule the residents used to face weeded out the less committed kinds.
Some good things that could come out of all this is that people should begin to realize their own health care isn't something they should turn over to a government beaurocrat or the clerks at their HMO or even to a physician. There isn't a magic pill that will take care of the effects of lifelong lack of exercise and wrong kind of eating. Most health problems and diseases can be avoided but it's something people have to do for themselves.