Panda Bear with an answer:
. . . the disdain for money is fairly unhealthy even in the medical profession. There has to be an incentive for people to work hard and long. You will always have people willing to be physicians of course, but their enthusiasm for seeing that extra patient or coming in from home to operate on a patient on the weekend will diminish as the rewards for doing it evaporate. Medicine is a rewarding career independent of money but it ain’t that rewarding. It can be something of a grind as I’m sure many Family Medicine physicians would probably tell you after their thirtieth patient of the day.
