I Hate Science and Math...Can I still be a Doctor?

pencilpusher
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:36:48 +0000

If you really hate science, you will really be miserable in all the required med school classes and in the first half of your medical school training. I can also tell you, as an MD, that people who think the patient interaction part of medicine is why they are going into it, will find medicine very disappointing. I frankly think you would be better off in a different profession. And I say that as a psychiatrist - - patient interaction is almost 100% of my job. You really have to love the underlying science in this field. Yeah it’s great when patient’s thank you and all and think you saved their life (usually it’s the one’s you don’t do much for who think this way) but so many times you really feel very, very unappreciated by patients. If it’s not mainly about the science, you are pretty much guaranteed to by unhappy. I would also say that you won’t find this out until after your internship. Watching doctors work and being a doctor doing the work are two completely different things. Once the responsibility is yours (and it’s never yours until internship) you will have no idea about what I am talking about.