Professional Independence and Responsibility

I think doctors should be graced with a high social status, more than any other health profession, because they are natural leaders and they tango with a line between with life and death. Blogger Catherine and I think alike in this way. Moreover, they have the power to make intelligent decisions for treatment and assign appropriate prescriptions that deliver cures to diseases. It is like they are our personal health lobbyer.
See it this way. A patient is like a project. Doctors lead the project and they can modify it how they see fit. When a patient comes in with an ailment, it is the doctor’s goal to cure him and everyone else is there to make contributions in some way. If they do, they must do it through the doctor: PhD professionals make important contributions to the R&D of medications but the doctors will ultimately write the prescription; Pharmacists prepare the medicine that the doctor wishes the patient to have; Nurses contribute to a patient’s well-being, on a daily basis, but then again, the nurses must follow conditions that the doctor places for the patient; Physician assistants practice medicine just like a doctor; they go to school for almost as long as medical doctors but they still must work under the doctor’s supervision. Doctors are the most independent and hold the highest responsibility to make us healthy again. For that, they deserve more respect form society.