Why do you want to become a doctor?

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.

My GP is a right old sod, but my friend's dad, who is also a GP, is so amazingly enthusiastic about his job its crazy. He totally had me convinced being a GP is the best job there is. You -can- encounter exotic and complex diseases as a GP, and (I quote him) you never now what's going to come through the door. You get to form relationships with patients from, well the day they are born to their teens and adulthood. The hours are great, and yes, I will say the taboo phrase, the pay is also pretty good. Some of the many reasons he gave. And I think he specialises in diabetes and volunteers at a local 24-7 help center. He's a workaholic. Great person. So they come in all forms they do I guess. And being a GP can be great.

I'm still not sure what I wanna do though haha, because I loved my time at the A&E. Being a doctor would be hard work yes, inevitably, but I think the rewards, although they may seem little compared to the amount of work you put in, IMO make up for it.

All that I see that might be better than what you could get as a Hospital Doctor is the pay. And I'm not bothered about money. It's great that he's happy about his job but I personally would hate it and eventually come to resent all my patients. Like my GP.

Interesting. I expected a few people to come in and say how their experience of having cancer or knowing someone who passed from cancer or some other chronic disease motivated them.

It's just I wouldn't expect these answers to fly in an interview situation really... the majority of them.

I actually want to become a doctor because of the unending challenges it presents. The work would never be complete, as it were, because you're the part of something that is larger than you can fully appreciate.

And? if you enjoy the ride why does it matter?
Besides could run away in 4 if I wanted too

thats fine, if theopportunity cost of studying medicine (extra time in library studying the least invigorating subjects, and losing out on being abl to earn a living, spend it on what you want) is your idea of enjoying the ride then fine, doody.

seems a cruddy payback when the reward is likelyto be a late started career that you might well wan to run away from.

why not pick and get exactly what you want instead?

Because currently it is exactly what I want to do.
I am just aware that one day that could change for whatever reason.

Enjoying the ride is the most important thing IMO, the work for me has been lower than any other course at this uni so far.

The fact I can run away and know so means I don't want to.

i see macca.
wat do you enjoy abut the subject?


what about the career in medicine will mean its continues to be the least work compared to thepeeple around you in future years?

you're asking me, and the anwer is yes.

perhaps you might want to try it instead of hazarding a guess on your life time career, macca.



i can fink of a biout two hundred office jobs thtat all this occurs in.

oh dear.

Co'z I want a Dr. beside my name. Lulz! (Yeah yeah, I know PhD degrees exist).

(I'll tell you why I really wanna become one, but only if you won't use it in your interview).

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

well, macca, i can fink of 'undreds of dazzling office jobs. do you want me to list them, or are you just gonna admit that you didnt fink this through properly now before serious embarrasment ensues?

whats a 'typical office job'?
a job in a call centre, or a job working for Sir Alan Sugar or Mercedes Mclaren or Animal Sports PR? Clearly theres as big a diference between them as the difference between a GP and a willy surgeon.

besides why would you be forced to select a 'typical office job'? surely you'd want an exciting office job, not a moronic one? you chose medicine becos you didnt want a moronic office job? i dont follow. thats like being adoctor becos you didnt want to be a potman.

after all, out of 4000 job roles in the healthcare survice,you've already been pretty picky in restricting yourself to only (broadlyspeaking a dozen or so doctor roles in the future.
i dont see why you cant apply this pickiness to rule out being a photocopier boy.

Um, first learn to spell.