The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute When I was a young medical student, I believed with all my heart that medicine was the highest calling a human being could answer. We were not just training to earn a degree or secure a position. We were stepping into a lineage, inheriting a tradition that stretched back to Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Osler, and countless others who saw the care of the sick as a sacred covenant. Every time I wal...
