Mark discusses the difference between practicing medicine in his native UK and here:

... I always say the same thing, at home if you say you went to Cambridge or Oxford (which I didn't), on the whole people look at you as if you are a smug bastard.

Over here when you tell people (ok especially girls) that you work at Harvard (this actually has a name - H bombing) they love it. In America people respect you doing well; at home the green monster just wont stand for it. ...