• inspxtr@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I understand doctors are humans too, and presume that is your reason for questioning “Why?”.

    But in defense of doctors being more “thick skinned”, I think patients are generally the more vulnerable side as they are usually the ones with issues. If every doctor they come to snaps at them, they start to lose trust in healthcare providers.

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      10 months ago

      It’s not wrong what you are saying, but it’s unrealistic. Being “thick skinned” is almost always useful and almost never required. There’s not enough doctors already, and only so many “thick skinned” people. Becoming a medical doctor already requires a set of skills, that only a subset of humans have; adding being “thick skinned” as a requirement is simply naive.