Editor—The tenor of King's article on dealing with difficult doctors is that being difficult is a bad thing.1 I have two role models, one fictional and one real—Jesus Christ and the little boy who suggested that the emperor was wearing no clothes. They were both probably thought of as being difficult.
George Bernard Shaw said: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”2
The NHS needs more difficult or unreasonable doctors, not fewer.
References
- 1.King J. Dealing with difficult doctors. BMJ. 2002;325(suppl):S43. . (Career focus.) (10 August.) [Google Scholar]
- 2.Shaw GB. Man and superman: a comedy and a philosophy. Cambridge, MA: University Press; 1903. [Google Scholar]