Doctor or Nurse Practitioner?

My best advice would be find someone to shadow. That means you ask healthcare providers to follow them around one day (or more if they are willing) so you cans ee haw their job is like. If you like being in the clinic, like the idea of having a more normal 9-5 job, then being a midlevel (PA or NP) might be enough for you. However, if you like being involved in surgery, emergency situations, to want to something very specialized, an md route might be better. If I were you, I would talk to everyone you know who is a healthcare provider and ask them what they would change if they were to do it over again. You will always find some midlevels who wish they were an MD/DO and vice versa. And lots of people who are perfectly happy. But if you can isolate what specifically makes home happy or unhappy, you can decide if that specific thing is important for you in your future career.

I would caution against doing a BSN if you aren’t sure nursing is for you. Most nursing credits don’t count as pre med credits and it would be difficult if not impossible to take pre med classes and do a nursing program at the same time. However, you can major in something science related in undergrad, while using that time to discern what you really want and take pre med credits so you have medical school as an option when. you graduate. And if you decided you want to do nursing, you can do RN program which is around two years.