What's Up, Doc?

Americans complain ad nauseam about the healthcare system, but that doesn’t stop them from putting doctors atop a Harris Poll’s rankings of the most prestigiousprofessions. Nor do complaints about the education system deter people from making teachers the runners-up, with 54 percent saying they have “very great prestige” (versus 61 percent saying this of doctors). Also in the top five: scientists (53 percent), ministers/clergy (43 percent) and military officers (40 percent). At the bottom of the list, respondents favored labor over capital: 17 percent said union leaders have very great prestige, while 12 percent said this of businessmen, with bankers falling in between (16 percent).