re: Why would anyone become a Doctor?

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You just wasted the absolute best years of your life studying and working your butt off. You will never get these years back ever again. You now have 500k in student loan debt and you get to waste 30-90k every year on malpractice insurance. You continue to work long hours and even take call through all hours of the night and holidays.

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Cry me a river from your golf course mansion

Maybe if you wouldn't choose to close at 12:00 PM on Friday you wouldn't have to work long hours and take calls on holidays

Doctors, with some exceptions, in my experience, know a little bit about a lot of different things. Mostly just enough to get by on the day to day 5-10 minute sessions they spend with their patients every day. They're not the ones that live with the medical conditions their patients face day in and day out. I'm not saying that spending 5 minutes makes you smarter than your doctor and it's all relative, but doctors shouldn't immediately discount the opinions of their patients who probably spend a lot of time during their day researching their condition and talking amongst other people who suffer from the same things.