Doctor's are nothing more than servants. Servants that donate a chunk of their lives to arming themselves, hopefully, with the knowledge and skills to treat, heal and improve the lives of their patients.

A lot of people see the nicer side of things and frankly is misrepresenting. Medical school is not the goal, it is merely a step. Residency is where the fun begins. You work long hard hours, deal with menial administrative work, nurses that page you for the most basic things, don't get paid all that well, patients that demand their doctor's perform miracles, your boss on you all the time, and last but not least, you have to learn to deal with death. In my mind, its the closest thing to being in the military without actually being enlisted.

For these years, you've sold those years of your life. If you have plans for starting a family or getting married, you better have a ton of family support and a tolerant partner or else you're SOL. This is, of course, is not from personal experience but I can see that people who put themselves through this might feel like they've been left behind in life. Can you imagine yourself being done school+residency at like 30 before you can begin your own practice. You look around and see that your non-MD friends having a career and a blossoming family whilst you're living conservatively in an effort to pay off those student loans. Not to mention your daily duties as an MD in your field of specialty which is more or less a lifestyle until you retire.

By now you should have realized I wrote this in a very negative tone (inadvertently so). It is in no way to meant to deter anyone from going for it. This is really to highlight that its an insanely difficult career choice and that one should think deeply about pursuing this course of action. There are positives of course, but most of you already know those. It is a noble career choice and if you're up to snuff, one that should be highly rewarding. Just don't jump into it thinking $$$ or prestige. You'll more likely be pretty miserable, at least during the prime of your life if not the years following.

I *KNOW* being a doctor is a lot harder than what most people think. And I *KNOW* I'm not in it for money because there are other jobs out there that can make more money and use less time. Like being a CEO probably takes less work, less time and less effort than being a doctor and the businessman will probably earn so much more than the doctor. And even though I don't find anything wrong with being single... just... being single the rest of my life sounds kind of scary. Like... once my parents are gone, my brother and my friends all get married and have families of their own, what am I going to do? I'm going to have to find other single lonely friends. LMFAO. Besides, I need a kid to slave away at home so I don't have to do the chores when I get home from work. LOL. No... of course I don't mean that.

Being a doctor means giving up a lot, I just didn't think I'd be pretty much giving up everything. I don't know if I'm selfless enough to do that. I love helping people, but I don't think I love it enough to give up my own happiness. Sure, seeing people happy makes me happy, but not when I have to pretty much give up my happiness for them... that's like... no. BIG NO.

Stupid guy who wrote that... totally ruined my concentration in biology... not that I had much in the first place...

But you know who isn't stupid...
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