Können die Amish Ärzte werden? Nein, aber sie nutzen Ärzte und Krankenhäuser

No, not while they remain Amish. Amish schooling ends with the eighth grade, and the church forbids high school and college, so a member cannot train as a physician. The few doctors raised Amish left the church to study. The Amish themselves do see doctors and use hospitals. Why can’t the Amish become doctors? Becoming a doctor takes years of college and medical school, and the Ordnung, the rules each Amish church district keeps, forbids its members to attend high…