What makes a good doctor?
One who holds your hand while you die or ignores you while you get better?

Communication skills rank at the top, beside being able to diagnose a disease or ailment from just observation and getting a good history.

People lie. Everybody lies. Histories are almost completely useless. People wont tell you everything. People sometime are skeptical with what you do and do not always cooperate with you.

Anyone can be a doctor. Just read the books which are readily available to anyone and you're on your first step to becoming a doctor. Everything is in the books. Every disease is written in the books.

So what makes a doctor a doctor?