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hillarious.
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It wasn't a joke.
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i think you'll find quite a lot of doctors who "pretend" as you put it, to care.
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I wasn't suggesting that most doctors have to pretend to
care (although I daresay some do, and that all find it an essential survival skill on some occasions). You said you
don't care if people think you're arrogant, and I was saying that you need to learn how to curb that indifference before you become a practising professional. I accept that this is an internet forum, and that perhaps you don't behave like this in real life, but really, on thread after thread, you display a most obnoxious disregard for anyone's viewpoint but your own, to the point where often you can't be bothered actually to read posts accurately before beginning to argue.
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its very frustrating when mummy brings in baby who has measles and wonders why, and the proceeds to complain she had to wait, and demand the doc fix everything quick so she can go to yoga.
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Are you
sure you want to be a doctor? You seem to pigeonhole, judge and parody people very quickly. If this is how you view patients (or perhaps just ones who disagree with you) you're going to be stressed and burnt out very quickly.
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and to use your phrase, i could probably go out for a nice lunch to the amount of times i've heard doctors express their frustration at parents who refuse to get ther kids vaccinated.
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I'm sure you could. Probably a much more upmarket lunch than I'd be getting. What's your point? Safety in numbers? Does that justify your stance on coercion? I don't think so (even if all those frustrated doctors agreed with you, which I doubt they would). As NorthernLight said, if that's the level of your respect for your patients, you really are going to be in the wrong job. Concordance, anyone?
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just out of interest, if its not MMR and the autism that puts you off, what is it.
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Nice try, but I'm not getting into my family medical history on the internet. Suffice to say, my GP supports my decision - partly because he's the first doctor I've ever had who's bothered to ask what/why it is.