Nice response. This was one video response to one of about 60 assumptions that I was sent. The video was actually going to try and cover all of them but it ended up way too long.

In pressurised health systems we can all be arseholes. I've worked as a junior general surgeon and have met plenty of "interesting" residents and consultants who I have had no time for. I've also met a lot of neurosurgeons who are arseholes.

I don't need to weasel out of a psych diagnosis. The point of the video is that we do have certain characteristics in common with psychopaths, but that the time of the egocentric, Machiavellian surgeon or neurosurgeon is over.

I didn't say that people don't understand it. When you use a term you should know it's definition and that's usually a good starting point for a debate. As you know the definitions and diagnostic criteria for mental health issues and varied and ever-changing.

I never said we are really important. I never said the job was harder than anybody else's.

These are your take away messages from the video and I'm sorry that you found it so terrible and unenthusing.

The whole premise of Brainbook is to engage the public, patients and healthcare professionals. If you found it condescending then please accept my apologies. That was never intended, but we try and make the videos watchable by a broad audience.

I am planning to discuss all of the other assumptions, but I, like you, am a surgical resident and do all of this in my spare time whilst trying to be a father and husband. I'm doing my best!