We have lost the concept of the comittment to being a healer

I learned the concept of comittment while attending Bastyr University in Seattle as a med student. It was while I was exploring spirituality in healing that I ran into a man named Goodhorse Nation. I was introduced to him by a wonderful doctor named Steven Hall. Steve and I would drive down to West Lynn,Oregon for Lakota sweat lodges and to learn about Lakota spirituality. While learning from Goddhorse I saw that he was not so much concerned with who you were or how much you knew, but he was more interested in your level of comittment. By level of comittment I mean how passionate were you towards learning how to help your fellow Man/Woman? How much were you willing to sacrifice? How much did you suffer? and when you did suffer, did it break you or make you stronger? In other words, were you a poor sufferer or a spiritual one? When you were not suffering did you enjoy life or take on new uneeded suffering?
In this country today there are many people who want to be doctors, or healers. They want to be knowledgeable persons whom others turn to in times of need , but they do not want to make a comittment to learning on a knowledge or spiritual basis what it takes to truly be one that can help people in need. They end up trying to behealers without studying physiology, Biochemistry pathology or the other healing sciences. They make up their own physiology and science. They end up taking up peoples time and money while they try to reinvent the wheel of healing. Do not get me wrong, I am up for original thinking and innovation but it is hard to be an innovator when you do not have the basic knowledge necessary to actually think in a beneficial way. I work with editors in the health industry who think they are knowledgeable about health and that they are experts in natural health, but they are minus the comittment and it is very frustrating to see them stifle creative medical people who are trying to teach the public how to stay healthy and instead turn to freelance writiers who know nothing about health and end up writing articles about subjects they do not even understand. The writers often end up quoting doctors who studied long and hard and went into debt to learn their trade.