I recently went to see a doctor, he has all the credentials to claim him the best in his field but he lacks the most important thing patients look for in a doctor and that is empathy. I have had my share of doctors to last me a lifetime but I have never seen one like this who fails to empathize with patients, it's as though the only thing that matters to him is his work. How can we forget the very core reason that made us want to be doctors? How can we fail our patients? Is it a tactic to try and fool ourselves to not get too close to a patient? Some things should be a given such as some decent respect. I would have never tolerated this if it were not in respect to a doctor I once worked with. It got me thinking about how medicine is changing to a more routine way than one where we once cared about our patients ..