Annie and Alice, I think that it goes WITHOUT saying that you are BOTH very, VERY smart. I am aware of the people I went to school with who became doctors. I remember their personalities. They were EXTREMELY competetive IN school. Now, I do NOT know if ALL doctors are this way...........but, if they are................is it possible..................

"Some" people who are competetive by nature seem to want to PUSH other people down in order to make themselves seem smarter, better, faster, taller, prettier, more handsome, more desirable.................you name it. Could it be possible that you two have had problems with physicians BECAUSE you are sooooooo very smart........and they have SENSED real intellectual "competition"???

I know that this may sound far-fetched -- and if I am "off-base", please forgive me. I know that you both talk as smart or smarter than my SMARTEST doc -- and THAT is saying SOMETHING!! So, I would imagine that each of you -- especially, being -- horror of all horrors, FEMALE , have made some male docs sweat BULLETS!!!

Anyway, again, if I have been out of line -- please forgive. I've just been wondering if this might be why you two haven't been treated very nicely. Cause you both are sweethearts!! (I mean each of us has probably seen at least one doc we didn't "like" -- but, the doc's treatment didn't rise to the level of "prejudice, arrogance and malicious intent" or "misconducts, arrogance and humiliation" -- I mean, THAT is ROUGH!!)