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A retired nurse I met once on a flight told me that of all the doctors she ever met in her years working in hospitals, the nicest ones were consistently oncologists (cancer doctors) and ophthalmologists (eye doctors). Makes sense to me, as their fields demand higher degrees of empathy and gentility, respectively.
Psychiatry not so much, I don't think. They work very hard at remaining emotionally distant from their clients, and I think that dynamic likely spills over into their personal life. They tend to be pretty detached and aloof.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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