I have to agree with Bert. I think a lot of patients definitely perceive that doctors, all doctors, are greedy, money-loving, over-paid, golf-playing show-offs. I work very hard to dispel that perception by wearing scrubs rather than expensive clothes to work, keeping the fixtures in my office pleasant but not showy, driving my old truck (which by the way is my only vehicle) and, when asked by patients if I am going on vacation this year replying, "Geeze, I would love to but when I am not at work, it is hard for me to meet payroll and the staff really needs to be paid."

And, Tom, yes donkeys eat grass...unfortunately they are so very sensitive to changes in their environment I fear they would simply droop their ears and pine if I moved them to Iowa. Right now they are enjoying their Jackson County Indiana watermelon rinds.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "