BMJ  2004;328:887 (10 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7444.887

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Professional jealousy

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An Italian philosopher, Signor Ferriani, who has made extensive inquiries into what may be called the psychology of occupation, has constructed a scale showing the varying degrees in which professional jealousy exists in different professions. The lowest place in this scale is assigned to architects; next above them come clergymen, advocates, and military officers; then follow in order from below upwards, professors of science and literature, journalists, authors, doctors, and actors. It will be seen that our profession holds a bad eminence in the scale of jealousy, being marked as only a little lower than actors. According to Ferriani doctors display that mean vice by affecting to regard each other as quacks. The old saying, Invidia medicorum pessima, shows that doctors have long had an evil reputation in this respect. How is this to be accounted for? Ferriani thinks that the comparatively slight tendency to jealousy which he notes in . . . [Full text of this article]


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