Dear Doctor friends, Its no surprise that this forum contains at least 10 percent of topics dealing with medical malpractice issues, society's attitude towards Doctors etc. Of course since the majority of us are concerned about our profession many of us do write in addition about the corruption etc among a certain section of our own fraternity . Recently I was reading about an article  http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/articles/2011/01/24/many_experts_are_considering_a_redefinition_of_narcissism/ I was surprised to see in few pie charts on left hand side the prevalence of narcissism around 5 percent in general population .

That was not surprising as leave alone NPD the full blown disorder the prevalence of narcissism and traits is not very rare . But what surprised me was a pie chart showing 17 percent of medical students has narcissism . Even assuming its an exaggeration , it…