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BMJ 2005;331:1069 (5 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7524.1069

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As anybody knows who has sat on an interview panel, people choosea career in medicine for different reasons—interests,steady job, tradition—but if you speak in depth to mostmedics we all feel that we are "doing our bit." Working as hardas we do to help others is the crux of our career choice and,in spite of all the surrounding difficulties, is the main joyof being a doctor. Now for this we get reasonable remunerationand hopefully some degree of job satisfaction. Do other membersof the public see us in this light, or are we seen as fat catsand fair game because of the image of the rich doctor on thegolf course?

My wife and I recently moved house and, because of several incidents,decided to use this (unpleasant) experience to see how youraverage workman reacted to us being a couple who both . . . [Full text of this article]

Jon Durnian, specialist registrar in ophthalmology

Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool (jon_durnian@hotmail.com)