A mathematician's lament

I know just what he's talking about:

For truly on countless occasions throughout my life I have had this experience: persons for a time talk pleasantly with me because of my work among the sick, in which they think me very well trained, but when they learn later on that I am also trained in mathematics, they avoid me for the most part and are no longer at all glad to be with me.

-- Galen, On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, 200AD or so.