You might be surprised to find that many doctors fall into the very description in this article. Higher calling is a social construct and the reality is being a physician is a _lot_ of hours, a lot of BS, and a lot of patients who need self help more than your help. Its in most ways just like any other job, if you don't find some satisfaction in the actual work, you are going to be miserable. Many are.
>the reality is being a physician is a _lot_ of hours, a lot of BS, and a lot of patients who need self help more than your help
Sure. In the end though, you help people and occasionally save lives, you don't market and sell sugared soda water, nor are you a middleman in the paper market, or someone that devises new schemes to part people from their money via convincing ads, or tap away at some Dilbert style cube job.
So it's more appropriate to be a higher calling (and has historically been seen as such by many doctors) than some cube job.
Higher calling jobs still have drudgery and boring parts (plus useless bureaucracy to fight).
