ABSTRACT
Probably most people regard a sense of vocation as necessary for the educator and member of both Christian and Chinese religious priesthoods. The widespread contempt for Buddhist priests in Hong Kong is associated with the great concern they are said to have with fulancial reward for their services. The attitude that medicin.e should be a vocation is not so strong as in the west. l)octors practising western medicine are among the richest men in the Colony and many take up medicine for its financial prospects. A number make money out of the dispensing side of their practice and engage in the pharmaceutical business as a side-line. One doctor known as 'Injection Lee' (I have given him a fictitious surname) is said to be worth a million dollars and one informant said it \vas commonly believed that one year his income tax was greater than the taxes paid by a particular bank. It was dryly remarked by another informant, however, that this might be because of the tendency of this bank to evade its taxes. Although abortion is illegal, there does not appear to be widespread disapproval of doctors who en.gage ill tlus practice. Sinularly there is not mucll disapproval of those who demand this service.
