There was an interesting observation that practitioners optimize for themselves, not the patients[1]. When you're seeing dozens of patients a day, each of them

There was an interesting observation that practitioners optimize for themselves, not the patients[1]. When you're seeing dozens of patients a day, each of them reacting differently, it's hard to empathize fully with, and adapt to, each of them. The one you can optimize for, as the practitioner, is yourself. [1] Dan Ariely, in the intro of his must-read book "Predictably Irrational"