Family physicians are generally under enough pressure to raise their temperature.
Add in the effect of friction from being rubbed the wrong way, and it's not surprising if you're beginning to smell smoke. The factors combining to focus heat on you are not hard to identify. The number and eloquence of the responses that article has elicited from readers is testimony to the size of the problem. Consider how far most of us are from having a single, coherent set of values. And in the pressure cooker of modern medicine, it's easy to fall into a reactive mode.