Many friends of mine are doctors and they've expressed the same feelings. There are days when they absolutely love what they do, but as an outsider, I see them experiencing more low days than high days. Just as an anecdote, part of it is the expectations of the patient population in the Bay Area - and I'm only referring to the high income neighborhoods here; the situation differs significantly in low income neighborh…
A lot of people are anxious that they are going to lose their jobs to automation. The profession of medicine should be no different. Whatever is happening to them is happening to nearly every single individual on earth.
>>I once described the job of a project manager to a doctor friend as a "thankless profession," and he immediately said, "that sounds like my job too!"
The job of a project manager is probably the job with the highest ROI on earth. Where else do you get paid big money, to do meta supervisory work, forward emails and approve leaves. While not moving a finger towards doing any actual work yourself.