I told my younger asian cousin not to do medicine - ama

Why's it a big deal?

Because for generations, well-to-do asian families have encouraged their children to apply for medicine or become an engineer.

Indian families.

Because for generations, well-to-do asian families have encouraged their children to apply for medicine or become an engineer.

Indian families.

Why did you discourage them from taking medicine?

But so what if you told him not to become a doctor?
Will be even listen to you?
Why have you told him not to go into medicine?

Did he not get enough A*s?

I don't whether he will listen but that is my opinion and I have good reasons.

So do you regret choosing medicine?

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He got 9A* and 1A. That's the point - he is clever.

He can get in to a good university and get a well paying job.

My argument is this:

If the country values a hedge fund analyst at 500k a year - who's job is to convert rich people into richer people, then I think every smart person with good grades should aspire to do that.

The economy values a doctor at 5x less so they should get doctors who are 5x less academically gifted. Then see what happens...

Things will change around pretty quickly if everyone was brave enough to just say enough is enough and leave.

I think that getting A*s at GCSE is based more on one's memory skills than one's intelligence. I'd say that A Levels are a slightly better measure of how clever somebody is (although still a very flawed measure), because for A Levels, one cannot simply revise off the CGP guide and the mark schemes.



Which universities is he planning to apply to?


Do his parents think he should become a doctor?

Yeh very much so

What degree would you rather have done?

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I have about 300 friends on Facebook, a lot of them are medics. Here are the last 5 posts from any medics in my news feed:

1. NICE's report on safe staffing levels in the NHS has been blocked by the government

2. I can't take the impending 18% pay cuts as a junior doctor with kids

3. I'm going to attend a meeting on 'alternative careers and wellbeing for doctors'

4. A patient with meningococcal sepsis confronting Jeremy hunt on his claims that doctors don't work on weekends

5. Jeremy Hunt called a **** by TV host - haha.

Never since I started as a medical student has the overall atmosphere been this bad. Medics are SO unhappy with the way they are being treated my the government. All that anyone does is complain. Seriously - medics = complain. That's it, they don't do anything else anymore. And they have a right to.

The arguments for the pros and cons of a career in medicine have been discussed for years. But I think the balance is now finally tipping to the point where it's a better idea just to work in the city. The sacrifices aren't worth the rewards that were there before.