Some doctors are idiots. Some doctors are only in it for the money. Only a small proportion of the people who qualify have any genuine deep-seated urge to help fix human suffering.
When doctors get it wrong, people die. Anyone who genuinely does care about human suffering is going to find that difficult.
But a lot of patients are idiots too. For every educated more-or-less self-aware middle class professional a doctor sees, there are tens of patients who are old, confused, angry, hostile, lonely, unable to look after their own welfare in more or less obvious ways, or just plain dumb - and barely able to understand what their problem is, never mind explain it.
So it's not an easy profession - not because doctors have to be unusually competent to do it, but because they deal with all kinds of people with all kinds of problems in all kinds of situations, and it's normal for many of those people to be very bad at being able to explain why they're there.
This. Essentially doctors go through 12+ years to work retail. Many people get an education just so they don't have to work with retail customers.
Also, it has gotten worse. Before the ACA there used to be a barrier where to see a doctor you essentially either had a job or money which would weed out a lot of the nuts.
When doctors get it wrong, people die. Anyone who genuinely does care about human suffering is going to find that difficult.
But a lot of patients are idiots too. For every educated more-or-less self-aware middle class professional a doctor sees, there are tens of patients who are old, confused, angry, hostile, lonely, unable to look after their own welfare in more or less obvious ways, or just plain dumb - and barely able to understand what their problem is, never mind explain it.
So it's not an easy profession - not because doctors have to be unusually competent to do it, but because they deal with all kinds of people with all kinds of problems in all kinds of situations, and it's normal for many of those people to be very bad at being able to explain why they're there.