Do doctors have a superiority complex?
Doctors make life and death decisions throughout their career and while most would not buy into the label that all doctors have superiority complexes, a great many lack the ego strength to recognize their skills do not make them better than other people.
Are doctors elitists?
History has long placed doctors into the elite class—a group of individuals who may be of higher intellect, wealth, power, and/or special skills and experiences, and in return may have higher influence in society. But medical elitism can build barriers among those in the field of medicine and also with patients.
Are physicians narcissistic?
Alexander et al. (2010) measured physician narcissism as a proxy for high but fragile self-esteem and found that physicians with high narcissism levels were more likely to respond to ego threats by attempting to bolster their self-image.
Is an osteopath as good as an MD?
The allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) approaches to medicine are highly valuable for treating patients. Therefore, neither an MD nor DO is objectively better than the other.
Are surgeons cocky?
ALL surgeons have the reputation for being cocky, narrow minded, and difficult. With some logic. They are “the boss” in a way few other Drs are, they have to make snap decisions in a way that others don’t and the consequences are very dramatic (if you cut the wrong thing then stuff goes bad very fast…)
What it means to be a doctor?
As a doctor, your patient’s health and very often, their life, is in your hands. You may find yourself under extremely stressful situations and may have to take life-saving decisions within split seconds. It requires immense strength to be able to handle it and take responsibilities, whether things go right or wrong.
What is a doctors God complex?
Psychoanalysts have a concept for all this: they call it “transference.” The idea is that patients transfer feelings, from somewhere other than the real doctor-patient relationship, to their doctors. The doctor is overvalued, and becomes a god, or demeaned, and viewed as lower than swine.