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Biochemistry or Medicine ?

I would like to do Medicine due to my love for the science of the human body and how everything works, I don't really want to be a doctor but go into more of a scientific/research career to do with the medical field.
Shall i do that or just do a medical biochemistry ?

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Original post by qpzm123

Medicine is not a theoretical profession. You need to be interested in practising as a doctor. Even doctors who work full time in the lab (e.g. histopathologists) will have spent many years seeing and treating patients on the wards, in clinics, in A&E etc. A medical degree does teach you all about the body, but it teaches you to think in a clinical and practical way too - you need to be interested in that side of it too.

If your interest in the human body is purely non-clinical, you'd probably find a biomedical sciences degree to be more relevant.