should i be a doctor??

Question

i always thought i wanted to, but now i'm in undergrad and dont know. i'm not doing well in my sciences, but i dont know if its just 'cause i'm lazy or if it's not interesting me enough. either way, i dont wanna regret not doing it

Answer 1

If you aren't sure -- then I sure don't want you as my doctor.

Answer 2

I love Taranto's answer. But I know what you are asking.
Any medical profession is bound to be heavy on the Maths and Sciences. Before you bail out, ask yourself some questions:
1. Is there a way I can improve my Science scores?
2. Do I know what questions I am missing on these tests?
3. Can I find out the correct answers for each test before I take the next one? (To learn what you missed)
4. Is it just ONE instructor, or all of them?
5. Why do I really want to be a Doctor? Prestige, money, or to heal patients?
6. If I change my mind now, what other related profession could use some of the classwork I've already succeeded in?
7. What part of being a doctor motivates me the most? Can these factors be applied to another field?
You have a high goal. Temper it with knowledge of yourself.
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Answer 3

You should really take time to evaluate your situation. If you know for sure that you really cannot handle the science classes because you just don't understand the material no matter what you do, then you should reconsider your major. But if you know that you just are not putting in the effort, then you either need to begin doing so now, or you need to just choose another major.

I know what you are going through, because I am a biology major (pre-pharmacy) and I know that the science and math classes you need to take are not anything to joke around with. So if you are really in a bind about sticking with your major, you may also want to talk to an advisor at school. But if you know that you can make a positive turn around in your science classes then you should stick with it.

Best of luck....with any choice that you make!!

Answer 4

Include this in your thinking:

A bridge between medicine and art

Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs • Press Release
Posted 05/30/06 • Susan Knapp [phone]

Observe. Analyze. Interpret. Decide. Explain. These were the general directions given to Dartmouth Medical School students on a recent trip to Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art. The visit was part of a pilot program that promotes the power of observation in making diagnoses.

"I had heard of programs at other medical schools that used art interaction to aid in patient interaction," said Joe O'Donnell, the senior advising dean at Dartmouth Medical School and a member of the DMS class of 1971. "I thought that we could duplicate that program here, and put our Dartmouth stamp on it."

He connected with Stephen Plume, an artist and a DMS professor of surgery, and they reached out to the Hood's Director, Brian Kennedy. Soon they began working with Vivian Ladd and Lesley Wellman, both in the education department at the museum, to develop a program that would cultivate the simple, yet often nuanced, ability to notice things, whether it be in a painting or in a patient. During the month of May, they implemented two pilot workshops at the museum that sparked some thoughtful comments from participants.

One student said, "I learned to be mindful when I am making assumptions, interpretations, or just observations. I also learned how different my perspective may be depending on my external knowledge or ignorance of a particular work of art."

Wellman welcomed the opportunity to reach out to a community of students who might not otherwise walk across town to visit the Hood.

"This is a creative program to help the participants look and think critically, and also communicate effectively," said Wellman. "Once they've carefully looked over a painting, the students have to report back to the group about what they saw. After a painting has been thoroughly described, the students discussed an interpretation, or diagnosis, of what it is about. It was a revealing exercise."

"What a wonderful group," Ladd said after working with the DMS students. "There is no way they are going to go on to become cold and distant doctors."

DMS and the Hood will work to refine this program and offer it again to incoming students this fall. O'Donnell hopes it will soon become a permanent offering.

Answer 5

Be or not to be is just another question, in Dr. med., if your exerciese is to help humen, to heal and go these explicable way, than do it - just do it - if not try it maybe the different way, with butcher as professionist. For to get the title Doctor you could get it on the University perhaps you wrote after the study years an dissertation in the way where you got the maininformation. Justice, medicin, informatic,......then try it again with your right information for your way in life, ask!

Answer 6

Well I'de say go for it.
Tons of people get to that point in college years.
But the moneys good and there are plenty of differant jobs to take with a medical degree apart from just being a doctor.

But really its all up to you. What you want. They are desicions your gonna live with forever in some senses

Answer 7

There should be career counsellors or someone who you can talk to at your school. They should be able to help guide you in the right direction. Good Luck