Is becoming a doctor worth the sacrifice?

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8 years ago 08/21/2015 10:10pm EDT

re: pre-med dude

pre-med dude wrote:
What initially drew me to medicine was its scientific competent, and the whole "detective" style work of getting a problem and fixing it. The money and status are added bonuses, but not really the reason I decided to pursue it. It's just something I think I would be good at, but currently the main things that are turning me off from doing it are:

It sounds like you would enjoy research more than being a practicing physician.

But to be a good researcher, it helps to have an area that you are passionate about. i suspect many of the breakthroughs in cures for diseases happened because the right people had the passion for the topic. They watched their kid or parent suffer from something and they actually had the knowledge to study the disease.

8 years ago 08/21/2015 10:12pm EDT

re: pvalues

now that i see how old this topic is, what did you end up doing?

8 years ago 08/21/2015 10:25pm EDT

re: crna.,

I hope the clinical years are better, 2nd year makes me want to jump off the nearest bridge. We actually had a suicide this year one of 3rd years hung herself during the ob/gyn rotation.

This thread is 4 years old. OP if you can survive the training you will be rewarded with a 250k+ salary. But the thing is you have to survive the training. Hopefully you did something else.

8 years ago 08/21/2015 10:27pm EDT

re: pre-med dude

pre-med dude wrote:
So here's the deal. I'm currently a junior at a highly ranked undergraduate university, and I have had aspirations to becoming a doctor since I was in high school.
This last semester I started to doubt my decision to go to medical school a little bit. After taking biology, I noticed I hated memorizing, which I hear is what a lot of medical school is composed of. I prefer more problem solving type of learning, such as the type you do in physics or math. In addition, I am not sure if it is worth both the time and money investment (4 years med school, about 4 years residency). I would like to have SOME sort of life during my 20's, i.e. continue running at somewhat of a competitive level and have some sort of social life. But from what I have heard med school students and residents are completely consumed by their work and career, to the point that they have very little social life or time to focus on anything but medicine.
So basically my question is this: is becoming a doctor worth the sacrifice?

It's not worth it anymore, unless you have some great connections to get your own practice going quickly or are one of those Indians with crap credentials whom the US Govt. subsidizes (along with all manner of other third world frauds). AND DON'T LIE ABOUT HOW COMPETENT THE SUB-CONTINENTAL DOCTORS ARE. For example, every year MDs in CA get a list of all the Medical Doctors in the state who were brought up malpractice charges, and those Indians with their falsified CV's etc. are over 80% of the individuals listed. The list is over 90% jam-packed with, eh, "immigrants" and the like. It's scary.

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