10 careers with the most psychopaths per capita

[LiberalElite]

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/23/10_careers_with_the_most_psychopaths_per_capita_partner/

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Are you a psychopath? Happens to the best of us. James Fallon, a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer’s effects on the brain, accidentally discovered that he was a psychopath and then he wrote a book about the experience. Fallon, like most people with psychopathic brains, wasn’t a violent person or a serial killer. But after discovering his brain pathology, he began interviewing friends, relatives and loved ones to see if there had been signs of psychopathy in his behavior all along. It turned out there were plenty. The diagnosis befuddled Fallon, but made total sense to pretty much everyone else in his life.
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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Not surprised to see CEOs and police in there. nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. The Moth

The guy is related to the Cornels. Yes, The Cornels as in Cornel University.

[Laffy Kat]

3. I knew surgeons would be way up there.

Been working in the medical field for 30-plus years and just try to stay as far away from surgeons as possible, which is often not easy. My totally unscientific and anecdotal percentage would be one in three surgeons are sociopaths. I don't mean they're mean either, some are very nice and friendly, but they love to mess with your head. Just for fun.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. More anecdotes...

Guy that lived on the same floor as me in the dorms. Israeli kid on the wrestling team. Extremely violent by nature. Lots of punched out holes in the walls during drunken rages. Threatening people with a violence which included a psychopathic look in his eye. - dude could kill.

Now he is a successful orthopedic surgeon and just bought a $3.5 million dollar house in Princeton...still a psycho I am sure.

[Laffy Kat]

6. No doubt.

The thing is, they are often excellent surgeons. What are ya gonna do?

[PRB]

7. Really?

I am not always fond of mainstream medicine, but had not heard that one.

[Laffy Kat]

10. Yup. The first person to warn me about surgeons...

Was a pediatrician, my boss at the time. I learned more via direct experience later.

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R More scientific study of this disorder is needed. It's serious and prevalent yet

the label is tossed around carelessly these days.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. I think it is already very well covered. I knew a narcissisic psychopath in the army,

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who would tick 95% of the boxes. It's almost laughable to read the lists of characteristics.

[appalachiablue]

9. So do I, tell me about it. Was married to one who also fits almost every box.

What is being done about it as they cruise though society is another very big issue.