Are students' aspiration to become medical students influenced by tv shows?

College Life
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<p>Those TV shows are far from the truth. My Dad’s an ER physician, he tells me that the real thing is NOTHING like the show. The medicine is real of course, but life is never that dramatic (which is why people watch the shows; no one cares about the medicine. they just want to know who’s sleeping with who)</p>

<p>no one has ever fired a gun or stolen drugs of a gun-shot-patient in the hospital he works in. It’s all there to make people watch, it never really happens.
And, 12 hour shifts are not as cool as they look on TV. My dad looks like a mummy (and smells like one) after he comes home from a 12 hour shift. Try having people puke on you all day and see what it’s like.</p>

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But none of that is stopping me from becoming a doctor.</p>

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<p>My aspiration to become President was influenced by watching The West Wing.</p>

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<p>If you will be like those people, I will vote for you!!! I miss that show!</p>

<p>Also, though I love the show “House”, it drives me nuts that they show those same doctors doing EVERYTHING in that hospital (surgery, MRI’s, lab work, etc). That is pretty silly, though very entertaining.</p>

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<p>hmm i cant choose between medical or engineering</p>