The research question: What is the basis for popular aspirations of medical doctor to be altruistic, self-sacrifying and professionally competent at the same time? In particular, what is happening in post-communist societies with realizing that the medical service is increasingly expansive and believing that the "good doctor" has to have empathy to the patient to the point thay have to help after workingg hours or/and for free?
Nataliia, one of the most influential and beautifully crafted (and delivered) lectures on professionalization was presented by my then major professor, the late James W. Carey, for his presidential address to the leading media studies association, AEJMC: "A Plea for the University Tradition" (1978). Well worth your time reading, I believe, because he understood better than most the uneven consequences of professionalism across many traditionally humane fields like medicine, journalism, and law. I hope you'll find it helpful. Best wishes on your research. Attached is Carey's lecture. Cheers.
Vocations like those used to be of altruistic nature a couple of centuries before, in places where money was not the means of exchange. When this changed, so did the nature of the act.
The ideology of communist and socialist countries differs from the one prevailing in the capitalist ideology, for every ideology is completely reflected not only on the economic system but also on the cultural system as a whole, including the moral aspect. Lawyer, education, are noble professions, and that those in charge of them have a special respect, but they also have to stand with the poor segments of society, in contrast to the capitalist ideology that views these professions as means of collecting money.
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