Deciding on medicine

shades_children
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:59:16 +0000

So, my son is getting ready to start his sophomore year of HS and has announced he wants to be a doctor. I asked him why and the only response he can give me is to have a good, reliable income.



I think you should consider the effect the global economy might be having on your son’s outlook. Medicine might suddenly have become attractive to him because he doesn’t see doctors getting laid off while many other professions are suffering big job losses or seeing salary cuts. It’s absolutely true that doctors enjoy a lot of job security and overall, a very high standard of living, but those two things don’t come easily.