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Sadly, I found most surgeons do not do well outside of the operating theatre & their surgery duties. They are well noted for poor bedside manners, even rudeness, but with a surgeon generally what matters is their skill in the operating room taking care of that surgical need. No long-term relationships, thank gawd. Of all the surgeons I've worked with, I can only think of three I liked as a human being. Oz is one of the former- take him out if the surgical role & you get a hideous bad character with values that are only concerned with money & power. That's what we have seen. Not only that. A surgeon is the worst medical professional to put in that kind of role because they have no global vision of what medical needs for the poor are.

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I agree, and would add that such people don't care about the poor. Or the aged.

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Or, themselves.

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Well articulated! I share your opinion in this matter.

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Yup. The lack of interpersonal skills and higher rate of personality disorders among surgeons is documented in the literature - along with personal observations of course.

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Surgeons are good mechanics, nothing more. They are not bright.

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Oz, is a Smarmy ex-Surgeon. With a very synchronistic last name. Think of the famous movie ‘Dorothy & The Wizard of Oz.’ Not quite up to his legend. Just like the Election “winner.”

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I had a vascular surgeon once who’d done surgery on me. A friend had given me a playgirl magazine, as a joke. So as he came on rounds he ignored me but looked at the magazine intently! He must have really liked naked Burt Reynolds’s.

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