It might well be cynical; but it is nonetheless true that many doctors suffer from the stress of the job. A very smart schoolfriend of mine studied medicine an

It might well be cynical; but it is nonetheless true that many doctors suffer from the stress of the job. A very smart schoolfriend of mine studied medicine and became a general practitioner. He stuck to it for about ten years before giving up because the weight of responsibility was too much for him; he moved into bespoke software for medical practices instead.