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Particularly in the seventeenth century we find that medicine was an avocation rather than a full time profession for the physician, as the practice of medicine was not lucrative enough to be a full‑time job.  As a result of this financial condition, physicians tended to have other employment to make financial ends meet, such as being a school teacher, a government official, or a minister.