Consultants now arrive at their destinations clutching shiny certificates of completion of specialist training (CCST). General practitioners still continue to emerge from vocational training schemes. Yet to speak of having a vocation in today's postmodern world is risky; some might say anachronistic. Just before his death the iconoclast playwright Dennis Potter, in an interview with Melvyn Bragg, mentioned his own sense of vocation as a writer. He lamented that the very word, derived as it was from religious language, seemed ill at ease in our secular world.
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