>> Being a doctor must be the classic example of a profession where half the people you know are looking for free advice.
LOL. It's been years since I responded at a party "glad to help, take off your clothes please and we'll take a look" when the free consultations started. ;-)
Loathe maybe too strong a word? Keeping schtum re own personal circumstances reasonably is matched by not commenting on others' except in the abstract. That's all. ;)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1