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Some Inquiry into "Why We Study Medicine" and "Why We Specialize"

WILLIAM BENNETT BEAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;99(6):847-858.

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Types of Doctors

The medical profession, in respect of the spirit in which they pursue their occupation, may be divided into four classes, corresponding to four classes of clerical teachers: 1st, Those who have been put into the profession, or chosen it at random, because they must be doing something— loungers who feel their business a toil and a constraint, who at best only desire to escape disgrace and make a living—correlative to the gentlemen in orders, and the drudging curates—a very unprofitable race when gentleman, a very unhappy and mischievous one when otherwise. 2nd, Those who pursue their trade eagerly and diligently for money or advancement—correspondent to the preferment hunters of the Church, and the popular preachers and Tartuffes of all denominations, who will generally be respectable or otherwise, as their rank or connections give them more or less of character to lose. 3rd, The votaries of science, to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Iowa City

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 18, 1957.

This address was presented at Little Rock, Ark., May 23, 1955, at the installation of a chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, and to many other groups of medical students. It will appear also in the spring issue of Pharos.

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