Yo so should I go to medical school?

[amazingdm]

I'm really going nuts trying to pick a career because nothing has grabbed me yet. I didn't have a huge desire to be a doctor in the traditional sense (treating sick people, doing surgery etc and I definately would botch any plastic surgery) but out of my jealousy of people who went to medical school I was thinking about it and thought to myself, I'm going to take the MCATs just to prove to myself I could get into if I wanted to. I figured it was all a bunch of medical and anatomy stuff that I'd have to study for 9 years for just so I could get the extremely high score I wanted on the test... I looked it up and turns out it's about biology/chemistry/physics, exactly what I took in college. Hell I already know half of the stuff on the test... if I studied for the mcats I'd just be studying for two tests at the same time (GREs).
Do the mcats expect you to just know the information you took in premed classes or expect you to be like a triple major and have taken all the major classes for ALL three subjects?

Anyway... what are the pros and cons of being a medical doctor? Are there things to do other than you know... cut people up and give them pills if they're sick?

 

[Jack Rabbit]

It's an honorable profession, I think. Helping people is always good.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Being a doctor out of spite, much like returning a jacket out of spite, is not a good thing.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

do what you want to do. and i agree with GEO.

 

[Erzengel]

but out of my jealousy of people who went to medical school I was thinking about it and thought to myself, I'm going to take the MCATs just to prove to myself I could get into if I wanted to.

You really want to spend $200.00 just to show up your friends in an occupation you aren't interested in?

 

[Carcharodon]

Long hours, little personal time, and general self-sacrifice will be involved. On the other hand, with time you'll get a fat freaking wallet, and perhaps the satisfaction of helping others when the day is over and done with.

This is a fairly dedicated career path, though...if you're not sure about it, certain that it is what you want to do, then I'm not sure it's worth going through with it. : /

 

[odiin]

Nah, waste of time.

 

[deathshead2]

Evil doctor medical school?

 

[nosebleed.]

If I could go back I'd go into a medical career instead of computers. I'm so bored.

 

[Majik1387]

No.

 

[Majik1387]

No.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

Majik feels very strongly about this.

 

[Majik1387]

lol It was a lag

 

[Asteroid-Man]

DO what YOU like.

 

[amazingdm]

It's an honorable profession, I think. Helping people is always good.

Indeed, it wouldn't be for the money.
It'd be nice to have a profession where I knew what I was doing instead of winging it "just to get experience"

 

[Erzengel]

Additionally, there are general practitioners who don't work in hospitals but instead in offices, treating minor things such as colds, shots etc and just writing prescriptions and sending people to specialists. They also spend less time in medical school because they aren't specialized such as other doctors or surgeons.

However, it's a long road just to that and for someone who doesn't seem even interested in the medical field, not only that but the $$$ of loans you have to pay off, and even in then you have to be somewhat interested in what you are doing.

 

[chaseter]

I hope to become a medical doctor...

 

[amazingdm]

Being a doctor out of spite, much like returning a jacket out of spite, is not a good thing.

You mistook me
I'd take the MCATs just for spite... or well more like to prove it to myself
the med school well that'd be somethin different


but I disagree, I personally find spite to be a good thing

 

[amazingdm]

You really want to spend $200.00 just to show up your friends in an occupation you aren't interested in?

well
1) I don't have friends
2) yes

 

[amazingdm]

If I could go back I'd go into a medical career instead of computers. I'm so bored.

glad to hear you say that (not that I'm glad you're bored, that sucks but..); I'm always kinda regretting not getting into computers but it might not be a fun career eh?

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Go into tv production.

 

[Erzengel]

well
1) I don't have friends
2) yes

Passing the MCATs is like the SATs, yeah I'm sure there's bragging rights but in the end, what does it mean past high school or MCAT's, college. It's a lot of time and energy for something you may not want to do.

 

[amazingdm]

Passing the MCATs is like the SATs, yeah I'm sure there's bragging rights but in the end, what does it mean past high school or MCAT's, college. It's a lot of time and energy for something you may not want to do.

I actually never took my SATs so I never really had that pressure.
But given I could spend 5 years studying for them it wouldn't be such a big pressure, it'd be more of a side project and personal thing to gain all that knowledge just for my own betterment. It'd be studying for the GREs for biology as well

 

[Halcohol]

well
1) I don't have friends
2) yes

Your bedside manner could use some work. I wouldn't suggest becoming a psychiatrist.

 

[amazingdm]

Your bedside manner could use some work. I wouldn't suggest becoming a psychiatrist.

I'm actually thinking about being a psych(ologist). I have fine bedside manner