LOL@Frannie & Scully! Yes, for some reason, these all end up as OUR patients!
GF, this can surely be changed. As anything a person can change how they behave & what they're all about if they want to.
It would be no wonder if a lot of us have met many of these individuals, coming from a cult that is Narcisstic at the very root. They can even manage to try & make natural disasters all about THEM! Everything that happens everywhere effects THEM or is about THEM, don't you think? Anything to draw attention to their cause. So the habit is in place & well honed, for some people.