<p>That isn’t a dumb question, Mumford2009; most people think that the amount of schooling that doctors get is insane anyways, but adding WP probably seems psychotic. I suppose the best way to answer is with a quote from a WWII movie I recently saw called “Saints and Soldiers.” In it, one of the medics is b****hing about how he “should be back home setting Little Billy’s broken arm because he fell of his bicycle. Instead, I’m stuck here pulling lead out of his 17 year old brothers gut because he wanted to serve his country and lied about his age.” Now, this was meant as a complaint, of course, but for me it summarizes why I want to be a doctor in the Army. It is where I can do the most good. Gung-ho students that dream of owning plush offices and BMWs can have them for all I care; that’s just not what I want. I want to be the guy patching up my buddies when they’ve had a brush with a landmine or IED. When someone screams “MEDIC!” I want to be able to do something for them. To tell the truth, being able to help my friends when they need it the most is exactly what I want to do, no matter how many books I have to crack (and who needs a BMW when you’ve got those great Humvees!;))</p>