The losers. Short Essay
Jordan B. Peterson - In regard to oppression: any hierarchy creates winners and losers. The winners are, of course, more likely to justify the hierarchy and the losers to criticize it. But (1) the collective pursuit of any valued goal produces a hierarchy (as some will be better and some worse at that pursuit no matter what it is) and (2) it is the pursuit of goals that in large part lends life its sustaining meaning. We experience almost all the emotions that make life deep and engaging as a consequence of moving successfully towards something deeply desired and valued. The price we pay for that involvement is the inevitable creation of hierarchies of success, while the inevitable consequence is difference in outcome. Absolute equality would therefore require the sacrifice of value itself-and then there would be nothing worth living for. We might instead note with gratitude that a complex, sophisticated culture allows for many games and many successful players, and that a well-structured culture allows the individuals that compose it to play and to win, in many different fashions. *
Doctors, I think, are categorized into the high-cost labor Alec Ross mentioned in the quote. Cross-checked with what Jordan Peterson said here, it appears that we got sidelined farther away from the comfort level in the hierarchy of society.
The implication is quite narrow; medicine is for losers.
While the integrity of the field will never be compromised, as we are bound to Hippocratic Oath, the oath-bearers will continue to suffer.
Unfortunately, we must play another game to cut our losses in medicine.
Career in medicine does not equal wealth; it only trades your time with money and status. Play another game.