I'll have to agree with you that the doctor example was unfair. The doctor is trained to do something specifically, and they know the answers to given sets of symptoms depending on what sort of doctor they are. They're following a set of rules, and they're not really having to do as much individual expression as they are following these rules.
With that said, I'd imagine doctors do experience doctor's block. When they're faced with a variety of symptoms they're not familiar with which may be a new, as of yet undiscovered illness, I'd imagine that they're going to hit a lot of dead ends trying to figure out what's going on and how to fix it.
I mean, there are still no cures for the common cold, cancer, AIDS...and I'm sure that those people get "blocks".
I don't think that a creative block is really a get out of jail free card, as it were, but something that happens to anyone, regardless of career. When it's your personal output and thoughts, and there's no real set of parameters, you get blocked sometimes. Plain and simple.
I know that I get writer's block, and it's not that I can't write at all, but that I can't write what I want to write at that time. I could still feasibly write thoughts down on a piece of paper which would still be unique to me and all of that jive, but it wouldn't be what I wanted to write, and I'd have to do some thinking to work around the problem and commit the thoughts I want to commit to paper out there.
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