Just to be fair,

1 Nurses (mostly women) also make terrible patients
2 Seeing a Dr likely would likely have changed the course of his illness, exactly none. He did the right thing by resting and letting his body handle it.

I support bill . A bad cold is not reason to see a doctor . Not today , not if u are healthy otherways and not w chronic conditions or chronic meds . Over the counter meds , etc etc . Pneumonia is not the plegue either And u can't get pneumonia from exhaustion . A viral pneumonia is not a huge deal , again , over the counter supportive meds and keep going

I think it is general over all but people who are self employed or in a profession where your always on call,We tend to abuse are selves that way and not take the required time off as we ,as your always have some one to look after,,But who looks after the look afterer ?

This is not a gender issue. I know I'm a good patient. In 94 when I was in the hospital for a month, I had all of the nurses going out of there way to do things for me, because l never complained and I made them laugh. I have been with women who were just bitchy the whole time they had the flu or a cold. And yes, most doctors, male and female, are lousy patients because they feel entitled.

Yeah, it's just male's, unless of course it happens to be a female who is ill and it's the male making the observation.

What next? Women drivers???

I've been married to 2 nurses - its the field in general, not the gender.

I’ve taken care of doctors; I’m an RN. In general I like them. I respect them, yet I don’t take shit from them. They are human, it’s an MD, not a GOD, as some of them think. And the one who graduates dead last is still called ‘doctor’, lol.
As a patient, I get more respect because I’m a nurse, I know it and I try not to abuse that privilege.

Yeah medical practitioners do make poor patients

Man Flu..........