Doctors Versus Dentists
The Glittering Eye speaks of experiences with dentists versus doctors. The key part:
I’ve got quite a few dentists who are clients. In my professional capacity I have found them personable, respectful, grateful for services rendered, not technology-averse, and extremely hard-working in improving their businesses as businesses. For dentists the greatest business challenge is finding and retaining good staff.
I’ve had medical doctors as clients, too. They’ve been smart, peremptory, technology-averse, knew more than I did about my own specialty (or gave that impression at any rate), jealous of their prerogatives, and slow to pay. I’m not sure what the greatest business challenge for medical doctors is today. It may be reimbursement.
This brought back memories of doing support for Microsoft products and finding that doctors were disproportionately arrogant, impatient, and fanciers of themselves as more experts than you on what they were calling for help about. We all dreaded getting calls from doctors.
This is not to say all of them were like this. Just that stereotypes tend to form for a reason.
I don’t work with dentists, but the doctors I work with are generally nicer than some professors. Maybe because they’re psychiatrists....
Posted by caltechgirl on 01/20 at 02:49 PMYears ago, I had a friend who did custom medical software development. He said that the friendliness of doctors varied by specialty. In his view, pediatricians and GPs were the only ones who were truly human, and their willingness to view others as human declined as the prestige/price of their specialty increased.
Posted by wheels on 01/21 at 02:14 PM
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