Which is why I used the term &quot;successful&quot; ... lawyer or doctor.  But perhaps I should have added, &quot;specialist doctor&quot;.<p>But regardless of whether a successful doctor is in the top 1% or the top 1.2% is beside the point I am making.  All these people are at a different tier of society than the societal elite this article describes.  The only chance a doctor has of making it to that tier of society is too become a successful entrepreneur or politician.  Practicing as a successful doctor isn&#x27;t enough (even though practicing medicine may be far more useful to society).