My family seriously are obsessed with me doing medicine

Could you explain specifically where you are at in terms of your education and where you are at in terms of university applications as from reading the 3 pages of this thread it isn't very clear.

Then users would be best placed to advise you on this.

I am in year 13, and am predicted A*A*A*.

And have you applied to university already?

I have told them HUNDREDS of times I feel the need to take a gap year as I might enjoy engineering better.

I have told them how I do not find the idea of learning about muscle pairs interesting, and would much rather learn thermodynamics and how to design electric engines.

I have told them how I want to open a technology firm and become an entrepreneur, working 14 hours a day to actually be rewarded , as opposed to just having "personal satisfaction" from patients spitting on me all day and inhaling gross smells for 14 hours a day.

I have told them how I can help people just as much as a doctor does, if not 100x more, by building devices that are used in hospitals and are more efficient and are with the patient 24/7.

All they care about is the prestige to tell their friends , "oh yes, my son is a doctor. Yes ,yes . I raised a DOCTOR ! "

The biggest concern for me is I am just not interested in learning a tonne of information parrot fashion, with very little intellectual stimulation.

However, a huge worry I have is I will do engineering, and be stuck at a chair by myself all day.

I am INCREDIBLY worried I will end up in a dead end job and regret my decision.

I want to work with people. The big attraction was to save lives, the prestige , and the money. But money is out of the equation now I learned FY1 doctors are on £28,000 a year, and people on benefits get more than that..

Yes.

so would you know if medicine would be quite a different course to Healthcare Science or biomedical science? because my dad keeps using the argument that its basically the same when i tell him i dont want to do it.

I am am almost about to finish my year 12 and I am studying A-Levels in Biology,Chemistry,Physics and Maths. My grades are excellent and so far pretty much always scored 85%+ in every test.The fact that I am best academically in my year and have NO IDEA what I really want to do in future (because I am a pretty apathetic and boring person and have zero interests,passions or hobby) is always used by my parents everytime I tell them I don't like medicine because I don't like working with people.

"What else would you do if not Medicine?You are the best in you entire school, can you name someome who gets better grades than you?If those people can make it,why wouldn't you?Are there any careers out there that are this much financially stable?Even if doctors are not well paid in this country you can still work abroad and make tons if money.We are working extremely hard because it has always been our dream to make you the best person possible (it feels like I owe them something just because they are working hard and investing on my education) so that everyone around you can recognise you and respect you and us and our entire family.If your jobless for making your own decision then it's your problem and fault for not listening us and we'll not help you at all.You are terrible in making decision,listen to us and let us decide for you cause we know what's best for you..."...Everytime I lose their argument.From their point of view mine are just childish complains.

I feel I am losing time and that I am trapped and that I am fated to fail med school and fail life eventually simply because I have no passiom and I am forced to do something I have zero interest.I really like science,but I hate people and easily get bored or sometimes annoyed when I am around strangers.

It's been more than 10 months that I have had depression. My parents already told everyone I know that I want to do medicine (LIE!) so everybody is having high expectations on me.

I'd like to talk with a career advisor but I am too afraid to do so because I am afraid of what my parents are going to feel about it once I come back home and reveal about my appointment with career advisor.

I feel you brother. You only get one life. Don't waste it because your parents want to live by proxy though you. You need to end the cycle. Be the person to end the cycle.

I've always wondered why so many parents from foreign backgrounds assume medicine is the 'only way out' or 'only way to have a good life'
Creates a very biased perspective of what it's truly like to study medicine/be a doctor

Probably because of the stability it provides in terms of income, and the respect as well.

I'm doing all sciences for a-level and i'm in year 12. my parents made me do those a-levels even though i wanted to do humanities. Now they want me to do medicine but i don't want to become a doctor. If i did any other science degree like neuroscience or biomedical sciences i'll end up doing research or as a teacher and i don't want that either. Even though i don't want to do it, medicine is probably the safest route to take. This is even more complicated because although i did like the humanities, i'm not interested in anything. There isn't anything i want to do anymore.