What patients have a right to expect from physicians

Your new internist appears to be markedly unfit. Does this influence the way you receive the life style advice he or she gives you?
Not at all
Somewhat
A great deal

Which response best expresses your opinion about the following statement: Patients have a right to expect their physicians to be available on demand?
Agree. Physicians knowingly chose a profession which demands that they put patient interests above their own.
Agree. Society rewards physicians with status and pay for their availability.
Disagree. Physicians who are overworked and exhausted are more likely to make mistakes.
Disagree. As long as I can reach a qualified physician I don't care whether or not it is my primary physician.

The best way to sanction unprofessional physician conduct (that does not reach the threshold of malpractice) is:
Leave it to the marketplace; no one wants a rude physician.
Enforce professional organization codes of ethics.
Use the court system.
Give state medical board the power to sanction such behavior.