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Innocence revisited
Professional developments: benefits from loss of innocence
Abstract
This author reflects on an important attribute shared by priests, lawyers and doctors.
Key Points
As adolescents and young adults we learned that functions of the three primary disciplines – religious studies, law and medicine – were pretty obvious. Prelates had a major role in maintaining stability within society, comforting people and fostering the concept of a next world while avoiding politics. Their rewards lay in the good feelings engendered by their work, acceptance of a coherent philosophy and practice, close contact with like-minded people, and the knowledge that they were secure in a material sense at the level they had chosen to adopt.
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