Architects, Doctors, Prostitutes and Clients

22 July 2006 | Category: Architecture Debates

Why do Architects, Engineers, Accountants, Lawyers and Prostitutes have clients while only Doctors have Patients? I’ve been searching for the answer high and low ever since I’ve posted this question month ago, and finally found it during a conversation with my office senior draftsperson.

The only profession that deserve our respect is the doctor, I don’t know about engineers and accountants, but I do know how architects find themselves.

  • Architects thinks that they’re the most culturaled person on earth
  • Architects thinks that only architecture is the toughest course to study
  • Architects thinks they’re one class above others
  • Architects thinks they are doing a great service to the world but infact they’re wasting the world natural resources by building non-sustainable buildings, buildings that suck up enegry and wasting spaces with their space wasting ideas.

I hate to say this but the only profession that deserve our society’s respect is non other than doctors, yeah not because they are rich, it is because they are the most professional among all. They need to know everything, from A to Z when it comes to curing a sick person. Unlike architects or lawyers or engineers, these so called professionals need workers to back them up, most of the time their knowledge in their respected field is so so only.

Take architects for example, the young project architects will sketch the design and then the senior will fine tune it then pass it to the junior draftsperson to CAD it out and then compile a presentation board. Then they’ll brief the architect on the idea and concept, all the architect have to do it present “HIS” idea to the client and negotiate for a small sum of fees.

Can a doctor do that? Can a doctor ask his nurse to diagnosis the patient? Can the doctor hire a junior doctor to run his clinic? Nobody but the doctor himself can perform, can he can sub it out and he can ask someone to take care of the patient.

Like prostitutes, architects, lawyers and engineers are business man, their job is to bring back business for the office and like all prostitutes, they only know one small part of the practice.

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2 Comments

  1. wess
    on September 22nd, 2007
    1

    I have to say I disagree with a portion of your argument… The general practitioner I used during college was merely a name on the door at “his” office; I never met the guy. He had an extremely nice office with a host of young doctors tending to the patients. He, like many SOME architects never directly addressed his client/patients though I’m quite sure he made a nice profit off of them. You say that doctors are somewhat more “professional”; I say by using the term professional you are implying an ethical yet business mentality nonetheless. Doctors are humans too.

  2. Melissa
    on January 21st, 2008
    2

    Are you implying that a prostitute can actually sub her job to someone else? Haha.

    Actually doctors are indeed required to know A-Z but most of them actually don’t. Why else do you have specialists? They know most information regarding their own specialised field but not others.

    Besides, the healthcare industry IS a business and it is not as professional or “clean” as you think it is. In some countries, Pharmacists have the license to diagnose too. Doctors are not irreplaceable.

    Anyway I just find your argument very one-sided with multiple generalisations and flawed on many levels.

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