Medical School or Law School?

Answer 1

Well both doctors and lawyers act under the pretense that they are altruistic and want to help people.

A lawyer recently told my mother she had a valid fraud case against a building contractor, yet he wouldn't take it because it wouldn't be enough money for her. You can protect your rights if you have money.

Healthcare would be more affordable and available if physicians could bring themselves to earn just a little less (and still be quite well off financially). They also wouldn't take up valuable patient time by having pharma reps in and out all day long giving them goodies.

Answer 2

For sheer earning POTENTIAL, law school.

For the feeling that you're making a difference, as well as actually using what you've learned, med school.

A few caveats:

1) Attorneys can effectively set their own income by deciding which cases to tackle. The downside is that the field is so saturated, if you're not at the top of your class at a top law school, and if you aren't the type to chase aggressively the most profitable cases, you may wind up doing collection work (my buddy graduated in the Top 10 from DePaul and is currently collecting unpaid bills for his family law firm; yes, three years and $150K in loans, and he's calling recently divorced families and asking them to pay the legal bills).

2) Doctors' revenues grossly exceed their actual disposable income. A neurosurgeon can command $800K a year, but malpractice insurance premiums can run $500K a year.

3) Consider the military to pay for either schooling. If you're a military attorney, you'll work on military law, but you'll have no loans, you'll be doing actual legal work (mostly research, but you'll never have to call for unpaid bills), and you'll have a guaranteed pension, not to mention you'll start out as an officer.

If you're a military doctor, you'll have no loans, get to travel, and have a guaranteed pension. The only downside (other than 12 years in the military, if you don't like that sort of thing) is that military doctors often have trouble getting into the subfields that interest them because the military dictates what they should study. You may be set on Allergy/Immunology, but the military wants you to be a trauma surgeon, etc.

4) Consider both, as well as Business School. My Air Force buddy recommended this for three reasons:

1. Most attorneys know VERY LITTLE about medicine, even those who routinely sue doctors. They can do this because most Americans (hence most jurors) know NOTHING about medicine.
2. The corollary is that most attorneys CAN NOT DEFEND DOCTORS effectively.
3. Conculsion: be your own attorney, get a reputation for not caving in to malpractice suits (most are settled out of court by the malpractice insurer), you'll hardly get sued. Unless, of course, you're a terrible doctor, in which case you should go into medical law.
4. Most doctors don't know how to run a business, for the same reason most business managers don't know how to heal a sick patient. Keep your CPA from stealing from you, and get an online, 1-year, MBA.

Just a few thoughts.

If you really want an easy, high-paying, make-a-difference way of getting there, study nursing and live in the South.

Answer 3

Medical School.

Answer 4

If you really want to help people go to medical school

If you really are having a hard time and wrestling with the decision, go to law school. Most people that go to med school are pretty decisive and dedicated from the get go. The process of becoming and training to be a doctor requires many sacrifices that usually the nondedicated don't last long. It isn't worth your time, effort and money if you can't give it 100% from the very start.

Answer 5

I would Say Medical School the need or nurses and Doctors are high

Answer 6

What's your motivation? There isn't that much in common between medicine and law. Are you in it for the money? Go into business instead.
If you insist on medicine or law, volunteer at a hospital to see if you like it. Of course, you could do both, and save us from frivolous med mal suits.

Answer 7

medical school. cuz people in the medical field often save other people lives.. that's a good thing.. on the other hand, lawyers are liars; they'll fight for you, if they know they have more chance of winning the case..

Answer 8

Do you want to spend your life working at researching and defending people, or do you want to spend your life medically treating diseases and helping people in a physically hands on way? What interests you more sociology or biology?

Answer 9

Go for what you are passionate about...don't go into a career for prestige or money. Like somebody else already posted, if you want to make money, business is the way to go. Think about what you want to do with the rest of your life.

Answer 10

law