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Is it wrong to be a doctor and make a lot of money; but with the intention of helping others in the health care field and also financially? Money does facilitate an easy and comfortable life.

Medicine is a wonderful career if you have the interest and ability to perform the duties entailed. St. Cosmas and St. Damian were renowned physicians; very charitable to their patients and treated many people free of charge. St. Verena was a nurse who traveled to Switzerland and cared for the people's physical and spiritual well being. Money, in itself, is not evil, but the love of it is. "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows" (1 Timothy 6:10).