I wonder. The CBC did a show recently on medical mistakes, and how difficult it is to hold doctors and surgeons accountable for their bad decisions, even if they lead to death or permanent impairment. Personally if someone is fiddling around with my insides I'd prefer them to have some emapthy.

Giggity.

Yes, there are situations where the focus and self-assurance are beneficial. The Alex Baldwin scene was very good (I haven't seen Malice before).

Wouldn't you just want them to be an excellent plumber?

A hospital joke is that surgeons become surgeons as they prefer their patients to be asleep so no bedside manner is needed.

you need to hear some of the horror stories.

Actually, I don't!

true!!

I don't believe I made any comment about whether it was good or bad; simply that, from my limited knowledge, I couldn't think of anyone on the Canada forum that may qualify.

That's a bit passive-aggressive, don't you think?

Well there you go. Super.

On the psych ward we used to say a psychiatrist is just an MD who can't stand the sight of blood.

The first real inservice I got in psych was for working with psychopaths, I spent a lot of time doing intensive care with them, and I can spot the probables here from your posts without too much trouble. Of course it's just a weak parlour trick, meant for entertainment. If you don't put much weight behind the diagnostic benefit of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) the quiz is based on, (and I don't), this quiz is just a smaller dose of the same BS. When I applied to join the army reserves I wanted to get into the artillery because my friends were there, and I had to take a multiple choice test, loosely similar to these. One problem had a picture of three identical howitzers, and I had to circle the odd one. I looked and looked but they were all the same. I thought, 'If I pick the one on the left, they may think I'm a Communist. If I pick the one in the middle, they may think I'm undecided.' I chose the one on the right thinking it might show a hint of political conservatism, and that's probably what they are looking for, and was accepted for training immediately. Not too unlike Arlo Guthrie at the draft board in Alice's Restaurant. And stop calling me Shirley.

"I hate people. My favourite patient is an orphan in a coma."

A miserable 36%. I was lying, though. I don't really care if my score skews the data. These people are irrelevant.