Why do you get so many 'it has always been my dream to study medicine?

Where have you pulled these stats from?

You clearly have issues.

To a rational person the fact that most applicants choose to go into accountancy once they fail to get into medicine would suggest that they are not doing it "to help people" or "to make a difference" or what other nonsense we hear on these forums constantly but rather to have a stable career that pays a decent salary.

I never mentioned anything about people I've spoken to and if you don't believe that doctors and medicine applicants have inflated ideas about how much more worthy their job is than the rest of us you are clearly deluded.

I'm sure your attitude towards nursing would suggest this also.

Pretty sure cartoon network hosts it, it is crazy weird, but the pup loves it. That and sponge bob.

See (and I have never said this on TSR) I applied for medicine because if I won the lottery, and money was never going to be an issue, I would be a doctor. It's interesting, people are interesting and I love being nosy. The duality of medicine as an art and a science suits me to a T. I am the sort of person people tell things they wouldn't tell anyone else. It just suits me: I don't know how to explain it.

As for prestige, none of my neighbours know, nor my daughter's friends parents know, because I worry they think I'll be showing off. I don't think I'm smarter than anyone! (my Dundee interview was interesting... The seventh station involved my motivation for medicine and ended up with the interviewer telling me I was inspirational while I sat there saying "I'm not good enough for medicine and I have no idea why Dundee offered me an interview.")

I worry constantly about not being good enough. I start in two weeks and have been waiting for Glasgow to say they've made a mistake all of the summer. I feel like I can't actually be THAT lucky.

/selfesteemissues

Not all students that study medicine at undergraduate level go on to study medicine and become doctors anyway.

I didn't go for medicine because of any lifelong desire (I wanted to be an army man, then a dancer (), then a forensic scientist, and probably more stuff in between), I even mentioned this in my personal statement.
I love science and the more theory heavy stuff, which a science degree or a Medical Sciences degree would have set me up with better, but I also like breadth of knowledge and skills, which a medicine degree would equip you with. I'd want to be challenged throughout my degree, and although medicine isn't said to be particularly intellectually challenging; it is still a very challenging course due to the amount of information.

I also like people (not just the "I want to help people" thing, I just like working with people in general!), and love to try to make someone's day better. I also like the feeling of physically being the one to do something, applying my knowledge to a situation and actually doing some work. It's also a secure and well-paying career, and I'm not going to lie and say that's not a factor in my decision, it would be foolish to go into medicine purely for the money, though. Much better ways to make money than medicine.

Having spent some time in a hospital and at GPs, I thought "yeah, this would actually be pretty cool." and went for it. I just felt medicine could give me the stuff I like rolled up in one. Perhaps I'll be disenchanted by clinical medicine and will go into research, maybe I'll decide I really like being more hands on and go into surgery, or that I hate wasting my day away in a lab and be a clinician. Maybe I'll want out altogether and go for industry, or journalism or who knows what?

Most of the stuff applicants say (myself included) in their personal statement is just to try to tick boxes and get in. I wouldn't take it too seriously!

No-one could EVER get a place at medical school because a head of sixth "practically begged for him".

No, I have a rational brain. No-one claims that their SOLE motivation is to generically help people in some way. Who says it's inflated? The general public clearly agree that the job of a doctor is more "worthy" than most others.

And what attitude towards nurses do I have exactly? That nursing doesn't require the same scientific knowledge as being a doctor? I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find even a nurse would disagree with that...

I actually wanted to be a dolphin trainer for years.

Awh, Seal. I just want to give you a big hug!

Glasgow have given you a place. You deserve to be there. Come September, we're off to our universities and we will be awesome. You'll be awesome.

Dentistry students are even worse, "I have always had a passion for the professionalism and ethics of Dentists" oh god..

No, I have a rational brain. No-one claims that their SOLE motivation is to generically help people in some way. Who says it's inflated? The general public clearly agree that the job of a doctor is more "worthy" than most others.

And what attitude towards nurses do I have exactly? That nursing doesn't require the same scientific knowledge as being a doctor? I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find even a nurse would disagree with that...

I had no idea we could get Adventure Time here in the UK, I've been meaning to check it out. What channel is it on?

I much prefer the "Can I turn UUE into A*AA" posts over the "I got 11 A* and a B in Textile Studies. Can I still do medicine?" posts.


I didn't go for medicine because of any lifelong desire (I wanted to be an army man, then a dancer (), then a forensic scientist, and probably more stuff in between), I even mentioned this in my personal statement.
I love science and the more theory heavy stuff, which a science degree or a Medical Sciences degree would have set me up with better, but I also like breadth of knowledge and skills, which a medicine degree would equip you with. I'd want to be challenged throughout my degree, and although medicine isn't said to be particularly intellectually challenging; it is still a very challenging course due to the amount of information.

I also like people (not just the "I want to help people" thing, I just like working with people in general!), and love to try to make someone's day better. I also like the feeling of physically being the one to do something, applying my knowledge to a situation and actually doing some work. It's also a secure and well-paying career, and I'm not going to lie and say that's not a factor in my decision, it would be foolish to go into medicine purely for the money, though. Much better ways to make money than medicine.

Having spent some time in a hospital and at GPs, I thought "yeah, this would actually be pretty cool." and went for it. I just felt medicine could give me the stuff I like rolled up in one. Perhaps I'll be disenchanted by clinical medicine and will go into research, maybe I'll decide I really like being more hands on and go into surgery, or that I hate wasting my day away in a lab and be a clinician. Maybe I'll want out altogether and go for industry, or journalism or who knows what?

Most of the stuff applicants say (myself included) in their personal statement is just to try to tick boxes and get in. I wouldn't take it too seriously!

I actually wanted to be a dolphin trainer for years.

Nice. So you start this conversation by saying that I am generalising about all medical applicants because you believe I met 3 who had a holier than thou approach, even though I said no such thing.

Now you can speak for "the general public" because clearly they all agree that a doctor is such a noble and worthy profession.

The fact that you were the one that brought up nursing as an inferior alternative to medicine suggests you don't think to highly of it. You gave the impression that it would be highly degrading for you to even considder such a career.

You make me laugh.

I've experienced this from my boyfriends mother and her friends, unfortunately.
They all, as nurses, seemed to have a huge chip on their shoulder and complain they knew more than the doctors. :/
Why would you even say that? It makes them sound so silly!

I'm so glad I never wanted to be a Dr. because

(a) I'm not clever enough

and

(b) I'd be ****ing terrible. I hate sick people, I hate moaning people. Sick moaning people would have me reaching for the shotgun.

I've never got it when people say that. The content isn't particularly mind-boggling. In fact you don't even have to be that good at academics. There's some great doctors out there who just about scrapped three C's at A-levels.

Not scientifically clever enough, please don't misunderstand me, I didn't have any interest in pursuing medicine. I am genuinely disinterested in chemistry, which I think is a prerequisite. I just wouldn't be a good doctor, mostly because I don't want to - and never have wanted to - be one.

I wanted to be a fireman when I was little.