Why do you want to become a doctor?

I have recently been considering taking on the task of graduate medicine. For many years I've been leaning towards it, and finally am starting to believe it is something I should have done long ago, but also - importantly - realising it is not something I should just give up.

I am wondering what made all of you guys decide to become doctors, and why you are so determined to achieve that goal?

Honesty and frankness is highly appreciated

I don't know didn't know.
It isn't something I can quantify, but I don't think I want to do anything else atm.
I can always run away from it if I need to.

yet you'll never get the six years spent there back.

And the social aspect is good,

The jokey answer I tend to give to this question at the moment is 'it's in the genes' - not one I would dream of having used in interview but one that seems to be fairly well accepted! This was always the question I most struggled with while applying because all I could ever come up with were the generic responses that everyone uses. In reality, I'm still not entirely certain why, it just feels right where no other profession does. I'm a fairly altruistic person so always wanted to be in some sort of caring profession.

why is the social aspect better than being in an office wif a phone to phone peeple all day and a computer to mail peeple all day and an office full of staff wif the time to talk to you?

You don't really talk to people face to face in an office while you're working now do you?

Anyway my reasons are basically a mix of an interest in the human body, general boredom with all other career paths, the social aspects I guess and the random challenges that come up everyday. It's exciting as well and there's always something happening. At least in hospitals anyway. I'd never, ever want to become a GP because I don't find it exciting or interesting in the slightest.

Why out of interest?

It may be because I hate my GP with a passion. She's very impersonal, doesn't ever seem interested and constantly seems depressed. And I have never fancied sitting still behind a desk for a long stretch listening to pretty minor problems. I find the idea of being in a constantly moving hospital environment far more engaging and the likelihood of encountering more exotic and complex diseases is far greater. And also being on-call and working at night also seems incredibly cool to me. No idea why.