You.... are a gynecologist?
Though they say "doctor, heal thyself", a good doctor trusts their peers and avoids self-treatment whenever possible.
*rotfl*
This is a meta rotfl btw. I'd rotfl on general terms because I disagree in principle, but it's also meta because some.environments are specially unreliable
Is the joke here that a doctor knows enough not to trust their peers?
like programmers
It's a half joke and a non joke.
What you said - that's the meta-rotfl and it's only half a joke. My current working environment relies too much on juniors and shoves senior staff towards management positions (There is a good chance I'll spend anything from FIVE TO EIGHT HOURS in different committees). Most of the time day to day management falls on top of juniors, and I don't necessarily trust juniors. Though to be fair my current workplace has such a byzantine paperwork system that I get nervous if I don't have juniors helping me with patient care. But this IS a problem.
The other rotfl is that my personal feeling is that for 95% things a GP is redundant for me (and that remaining 5% is largely paperwork) and I'd very much rather manage my own stuff. Most of my uni friends would agree with me, and although I'll grant you that these things vary with the cultural environment, I expect they largely hold across the world. This doesn't mean that I wouldn't ask for input from other colleagues(largely hospital staff - I truly see very very few scenarios where I would need to attend a GP) if I didn't know something, if I couldnt do it myself, or if I had something serious, but I'd largely be my own attending in any scenario and would expect to be far more actively involved in decision making than usual. I return the favor too - I involve healthcare workers more than I would muggles, and my baseline for explanations for patients is already higher than most people's (there is a story there btw). I also feel this is the right thing to do btw - different people will be able to get involved in their care at different levels, and obviously healthcare workers would be in their own category in there