On Sep 17, 10:01*pm, Steve Walker -
family.me.uk wrote:
I work in Engineering, which is almost exclusively male (although it is
changing), and over twenty-odd years have only met a few nasty,
difficult or stupid *******s. My wife on the other hand works in the NHS
and yes, there a more women than men - but the number of those women
that are vicious, bullying, uncaring bitches is staggering.

Medical professionalism requires a distancing from the patient,
unfortunately it can also prove a hiding ground for those who have a
pathological lack of empathy, focused on pay & "whatever happens I
still get paid" (and more often than not upper middle class
bitches :-) Eugenics is also alive and well. The worst medical staff
are social climbers, the patient is incidental to their god complex
and if you sense your well being is under one of those "get a second
opinion".

Then there are those who are both competent & have empathy, tending to
choose medicine for the security as "bottom line"; nurses who are
tireless and doctors who walk the hospitals night & day double
checking.

Vetinary are, for the most part, superior to medicine in both ability
and have strong empathy. Not untrue to say a vet will spot disease
whilst medicine will spot social class first.

Engineers tend to be the most pragmatic. Investing & Banking attracts
very extreme types, whose complete psychological makeup is extreme
with the result that sound external risk management is necessary -
because they themselves can rarely exercise it sufficiently especially
in a herd environment. Politicians meanwhile seem cognitively
challenged by virtue of power being the first requirement.