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I think in becoming a doctor one needs to consider the passion for the field before considering all these other variables. Apart from it being a respectable profession or a profession where you make money or even the downside of high malpractice insurance, I think one true passion for the field will put the needed prospective on this issue going forward. For me medicine is what I have wanted to do my whole life. I have a deep compassion and love for the field and most important a great deal of love for people, which will eventually become my patients.. With that being my drive, other issues as malpractice and cost of becoming a doctor are secondary issues for me. I understand that the process is expensive and I understand that when u finally become a physician the cost is still what overwhelming in regards to malpractice. People also need to pay attention to the evolving aspects of medicine. For example, malpractice has always been an issue in the medical field. What you see happening now is a lot of physicians are now becoming hospitalist in order to incur the cost themselves. With becoming a hospitalist physicians now are able to have the issue of malpractice or a least the majority of it be the problem of the hospitals. So at the end of the days there are both pros and cons to becoming a doctor but for me, my love and passion alone suppresses much of the downsides that others see.
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