It takes all kinds. If anything, that's the myth I find most puzzling - that people genuinely believe you need to have a particular outlook or set of beliefs to be good at medicine. We need some practitioners who wear their hearts on their sleeves, and we need others who can handle just about any situation dispassionately. We need extroverts and introverts. We need thinkers and doers.

We need people who are just doing a job, and we need people who are on a mission.

It's okay to disagree on this. A dissenting opinion isn't a threat unless everyone externalizes their personal beliefs and imposes them on everyone else. Setting personal boundaries is a sign of a healthy, well-balanced individual. Setting those same boundaries for other people is going to spell disaster. Do whatever you need to wake up and come to work in the morning, ready to provide care in the best way you are able, and I couldn't care less whether that means you see yourself as the self-sacrificing savior of every single patient or if instead you see human beings as walking dollar signs. So long as the team runs well and patients get treated, go for it.