Your accusing everyone else of being arrogant entitled bozos by just doing what is a socially expected and defined behavior seen as respectful and while things may be changing, it is still indeed expected by most patients. There can be many mitigating factors to influencing things one way or another, but you havent found some panacea of practice style, its very individual and location specific. I for one cannot do this, as my patients cant get over how young I look (despite the receding hair and gray starting in), I have to remind them Im a doctor it seems because their preconceived notions of old dude (Im usually 5-15 yrs older than my average pt, im often told I appear to young by someone 10 years younger than me) arent met. It depends like everything else.
You are excellent at building straw men and taking things out of context to create false equivalencies. No one says everyone is unnecessary for all practices, just the degree of it you see and the multiple layers in training are not fully required. Things need only be as complex or simple as necessary, but no further just because.
I cut my own hair. No, again, you miss the whole point and build your arrogant entitled doctor caricature to fit your narrative, and this is why people are on your case which you view as entitled. I meant as a general level of respect and trustedness by the public, which you can objectively see in research polls and the like. Just fyi, I dont want to be known as a "dr" anywhere outside of work whatsoever, going so far as to be awkward when Im asked "what do you do" and reply with an awkward "medical field", which besides feeling awkward works great. Also still have trouble with my grandmother who insists on writing doctor on her letters. I want nothing to do with being recognized as a doctor outside of what pays the bills, and if my patient population were so relaxed as to not need to hear/see subtle clues that I am indeed a physician, I would have no problem with it. However, that isnt how the world works, people have cognitive biases whether they know it or not, and you are likely to judge someones ability/expertise on something as superficial as what theyre wearing when you meet them, regardless of the fact that has nothing to do with their abilities (con men are good at exploiting this and other biases).
You seem to want to paint drs who go by their titles (which is socially conditioned to them and the public) as some megalomaniacs and yourself some wonderful egalitarian because you do not, without recognizing the obvious that it totally depends. You can be an entitled arrogant person/dr and go by your first name, or be super humble and call yourself dr, it isnt the defining characteristic and most arrogantly left out what the average patient desires or is comforted by, not some editorial writer in medical journal that is decidedly not representative of the average patient.
