A Psychopath

I Hope My Surgeon Is A Psychopath:

Imagine yourself lying in the operating theatre, the bright lights over head dazzling you. As the anaesthetist asks you to count down from ten what's your last thought? Would it be “I hope the surgeon is a psychopath" ? Is a psychopath a bloodthirsty serial killer who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison? No! A psychopath as defined as “a personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior.” It is unknown what exactly causes this condition and its severity but one of the major theories is it is caused by a defect in the paralimbic system. Psychopathy has particular personality characteristics which together
One of my aunts was diagnosed with bowel cancer and needed a portion of her bowel extracted to remove the cancer and prevent it spreading. When the surgeon performed the surgery he told her he would remove as much bowel as he physically could to give my aunt the best chance to survive, not just the affected areas the surrounding areas too. This ruthless approach to surgery if done safely can save lives as it did my aunt's.Not only in doctors is ruthlessness beneficial but in many other fields which contain people who are psychopathic such as in the military. Andy Mcnab is an ex SAS member famous for his true story Bravo Two Zero who actually was found to be a psychopath in tests conducted by Kevin Dutton. It was Mcnabs ruthlessness that allowed him to be paid to kill people and still come out of it with his mind intact. However some former service men aren't wired that way, they can not just put aside the things they have seen and done as easierly. A former SAS member, Thomas Shanks, who had won the Military Medal for gallantry, shot his girlfriend, in a pub car park. He was arrested before he could kill himself, two of his close friends had also killed themselves on returning from the Gulf war. The effects war can have on people are colossal a psychopath can handle these type of situations better than
These people would most definitely never allow a psychopath to operate on them. In this they would be partly right there are psychopaths such as Robert Maudsley who have killed people, now spend their life in prison and have been officially diagnosed as psychopathic (In fact Dr. Kent Kiehl travels between mexican prisons doing MRI scans on prisoners to investigate psychopathy) yet these people are not the majority. Many lawyers, CEOs, doctors, stock brokers and special forces members have been diagnosed as psychopaths yet these people are operating at the highest level of their chosen profession. This is because psychopathy is a spectrum, like many other conditions severity ranges from person to person just like intelligence or any other personality trait does. The Psychopathic Checklist Revised (PCL-R) is a recognised test for psychopathy which in conjunction with interviews and other tests can be used to tell if someone is truly a psychopath. However a key component of a psychopath's personality is to be manipulative so in a criminal setting these test are not conclusive but in a research setting where the psychopath is willing to answer truefully (such as non criminal psychopaths and prisoners doing life sentences) the results are very accurate. The PCL-R ranges from 1 to 40, most people score an average of three to