Is Medicine different?

Thinking about how leaving the medical profession makes me wonder how or if it differs from leaving other professions or occupations. Is it different for a person leaving Medicine than for someone leaving for example th teaching profession or the legal profession? Probabaly not hugely. Any long time profession can have a huge effect on the way one perceives oneself and how others perceive you too. It affects your status in society too. Maybe leaving medicine is different because of the way hat many people regard being a doctor as if it is more than a job, that it is a ‘vocation,’ rather like being a priest or other member of the clergy

But is it really a vocation? These days when people going to Medical school tend to be those with very high academic grades at school  may or may not be the most suitable in terms of people and communication skills and may not be best suited to life as a doctor. Perhaps when those people want to leave Medicine they find it easier than those who really connected more with their patients and Medicine really did take over their lives so much more.  What do you think?