My take is that medicine people are of course intellectual and love to mull things over. Generally like people, especially the docs interested in primary care, but with a little less tolerance for social issues of patients than say FP. Socially friendly people for the most part, but a good 10-15% are a**holes who probably should have chosen a more hard-nosed profession like being a repo man for the IRS. Definitely inquisitive types who want to get to the bottom of things--sometimes having to live with more ambiguity than a general surgeon who may just operate to find out what's going on (which doesn't necessarily clarify the matter). Overall, these are the true-blues of medicine (medicine in the broader sense), they chose the profession because they want to help, they enjoy the intellectual pursuit, and they are the glue of hospitals. People I want to hang out with and hopefully I never fall into the 10-15% a**hole minority.
