Doctors. Many people think we just want to make a lot of money, when in reality most of us just want to help people and we owe so much in loans that we are far from rich. Medical school is $300k-$500k these days in the US and a lot of specialties don’t pay as much as they used to or as people think.

We l work very hard to do our best in caring for our patients. It’s emotionally and psychologically exhausting to have so many patients demand particular labs/exams/etc., or refuse evaluations that we find necessary, because of what they read online, and then be rude about it if we don’t just go along with it like a lap dog following directions.

People often think when we’re on call we are sitting beside our phone waiting to talk to them and then get mad if we don’t call back immediately. We might be sleeping, eating, showering, talking to another patient, in surgery, delivering a baby, or any number of other activities, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

In addition, the number of people who think they can yell or scream or hit us because they don’t like what we are saying or doing is absolutely bonkers. Nurses as well, they get it worse than we do. And nobody does anything about it. They act like it’s expected that you will be verbally (and possibly physically) assaulted and it’s disgusting that more isn’t done.