This page is reserved for a discussion of the unbelievable arrogance of those in the medical profession and their undeserved position in the community.
The Consultant Endocrinologist, an Associate Professor of Medicine, who, very arrogantly, told me that she was at the peak of her profession. I paid many hundreds of dollars for a couple of quite useless “consultations” where she sent me off to pathology to check a few hormone levels. The last consultation lasted less than five minutes and consisted of her telling me that she had lost interest. I was still expected to pay full price for the honour of being in her presence.
The Liver Specialist who spent most of the time during my consultation on the telephone. Every time the phone rang, he made a point of telling my wife and me how important he was. That “consultation” was a complete waste of three or four months waiting for the appointment and a couple of hundred dollars, in return for which he did absolutely nothing, other than look at an earlier abdominal CT scan. He spent the whole consultation impressing us with how important he was, and we had to pay for that priviledge of being in his presence. In any other business, people like this would be up before Fair Trading or the ACCC.
I’m open to a physician restoring what faith I may have had in the profession but, at present, all I see is a whole profession sucking money out of the public health system and fellow human-beings suffering, putting it away for their well-funded retirements.