I didn’t say anything about his addiction originally, that wasn’t me, so I agree addiction isn’t particularly relevant to his personality. I don’t know, I guess having worked in a fair few toxic jobs, I feel for him even in this environment. About the mentally challenged person, I even feel that one in my own way because I’ve always struggled socially and sometimes it feels like you just can’t win with ‘social norms’. I was treated by a doctor after all other doctors internationally gaslit me saying there was nothing wrong with me. My doctor for my life-changing surgery was personable, but he did encroach on a few of my personal boundaries, he tried bringing my family into things even when I wasn’t comfortable with it. He was no House, but I think he cared about figuring out what was wrong and fixing it more than he cared about my feelings, and I think that’s okay. He did the job, that’s what matters. It’s a complicated subject for sure, but I’m not sure I’d have even agreed to the surgery if a doctor was all ‘oh it’s entirely up to you, keep living as you’ve been living if you feel like it’, even though that surgery changed my life. So yeah, I don’t think it’s a clear-cut thing, but I also disagree that we should prioritise empathy and social norms over hard medical expertise. My family doctor who’s treated my family for about 40 years is the opposite of them both, a very ethically driven, religious woman. She makes me very uncomfortable, the type of person that tells kids not to get braces because ‘you’re beautiful just the way you are’. So I think it’s all about what types of personality work for the patient, and it definitely isn’t always cheesy Cameron-type people.