Edited sentence: Among all physicians, surgeons tend to be the most highly respected and the highest paid.Surgery requires a sound grasp of anatomy, fast diagnostic instincts, steady hands, and superhuman stamina, since one cannot simply drop everything to visit the restroom while performing a heart transplant.The stereotype of the "arrogant surgeon" has become a stock figure in entertainment scripts set in hospitals.The top surgery programs in the world reportedly test the stamina of new students by asking them to observe an entire operation from start to end; anyone who leaves early leaves the program.This could be attributed to the fact that they literally hold a person's life in their hands, while MRI scans and small incisions are the closest that most physicians will get to seeing the insides of their patients.Unfortunately, because they are members of an elite group, surgeons have a universal reputation for arrogance.Yet the certain personality characteristics likely to make better surgeons may be what make them socially difficult: they are determined, focused on their task, stable under pressure, resilient and unclouded by emotion