I didn't say all doctors or psychiatrists are evil !!
As a *group*, and to a extremely unpleasant degree in percentage of members, the profession here in the UK, are rotten bastards.
it's par for the course with Humanity.
See the crap with the Vatican, Westminster, police in many US area, etc etc.
Many are attracted to these professions/area with noble or decent goals.
However, Human psychology (ah the irony
) always bloody warps groups towards self interest, supporting the group above all, etc.
They become very "conservative" in outlook (in specific sense not politics).
They resist change, they fight tooth and nail against over sight or being held criminally responsible for their actions etc.
From what I've seen, the psychiatric side of things seems especially to attract those with aberrant personalities.
here in UK, many doctors come, or did, from well to do upper middle class families, who could afford the lengthy university fees/time.
However, such families, as anyone with experience of the "profession/upper middle class" of Uk should know, have a high tendency to being malign bastards. Again, Human psychology
That group in a society tends to be the most envious, grasping of all, and often riven by inhumanity hence you get a lot of sociopaths...or, they are able to go the other extreme and have wealth/chances to be very humane.
The Medical Profession here in UK is still very Victorian in outlook.
Ask female doctors for their experiences for example.
Another issue is that the arrogant sods forced junior doctors to work diabolical hours and conditions that are illegal for anyone else. Junior doctors until just recently frequently got lumped doing 90 to 120 hour shifts!
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...-of-risks-over-culture-of-long-hours.23509238
because the utter pricks who are "consultants" are often the most incompetent, arrogant ratbags you'll ever meet
"Oh we had to do those hours so they can too!"
While consultants refuse to work at weekends etc, causing real problems for accident & emergency wards and patients.
Maybe that culture of long shifts led to high rates of mental health or lack of humanity problems in the profession?
And not once did those VERMIN consider that you'd never ever trust say an HGV driver, a pilot after 90+ hours ofo work per week, would you? So why the HELL should someone who's got lives in their hands be trusted/forced to do that? Jeesh.
Not an issue of the "NHS" per se though groups always have problems, it's problem of the very sick British "establishment" ensuring that things weren't cleaned up in the profession, see similar vile and stupid crap resulting in politicians, cops etc who're beyond the law.
My experience is that maybe 1/3rd of doctors are decent people. 1/3rd are either skilled but not very caring or just not very good at either (i.e. barely competent and so they rely WAY too much on "conventional wisdom" of their culture, tings their profession
accepts, not facts of medical science), and 1/3rd are utter ratbags and/or grossly incompetent and dangerous.
Younger doctors seem much better, currently whether because of different teaching methods or not been corrupted by the system etc I don't know.
Consultants and GPs have higher ratios of scumbags than A&E docs.