Hi, my father says I'm crazy..

mmmcdowe
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:35:02 +0000

squ1s1, it’s the hard truth. Many medical schools do have basic physical requirements for admission. Having cerebral palsy may in fact make it harder for you to get into medical school. There really aren’t many doctors in wheel chairs, for example. The few that exist tend to be in chairs because they are old and have years of experience to make them valuable in other ways. As a medical student, you are expected and required to perform surgical techniques even if you don’t want to be a surgeon. You should keep this in mind, but I think the first blind US medical student just graduated recently, actually so physical disabilities can be overcome.

The answer to your follow up question is they don’t care about high school at all.

Also, I don’t see why your creative writing skills couldn’t have used MD instead of PhD. Regardless of the forum when someone says they want a PhD I don’t automatically translate that to MD without question.