Is the Pre-med Path for me?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Hey, first of all I am a very indecisive person, but the idea of helping other people has always been at the back of mind through my shifts. Now here I am, going to Cornell. I am not the hardest worker in the world, but I think I’m capable of shifting my work ethic. I’m honestly worried that if I start on the pre-med path, I will not voluntarily leave the field, but will be forced out due to bad grades and such, and that this will dramatically hurt me in other professions because of the bad start. The opportunities for med ec’s are fairly limited during the summer for me for various reasons. Also, everyone (this includes the doctors that I go to and my family) basically say that you should not go in the field these days unless you truly love medicine, because the lucrativeness of the field is drastically falling, especially with the new healthcare and such (I would likely try to be a psychiatrist though).</p>

<p>So, is it worth it to try out this field, keeping in mind that I do love the field, but that money is important to me also? Thanks.</p>

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<p>Start by volunteering in a hospital during the school year.</p>

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<p>Congrats on the Cornell. Did you get in from high school, or as a transfer?</p>

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<p>Don’t you worry about compensation, its going to bounce back, as it did in the past. </p>

<p>Basically, they will poke physicians enough that they finally start pumping money back into the AMA, which will promptly lobby on the behalf of physician wages. I believe that at one point the AMA dues (not even donations), were something like 5k a year. So, lets pretend 10k physicians were to join. That’s 50 mil a year, and thats a lot of political power. Now think if 100,000 docs were to join.</p>

<p>If things were to get bad enough, and they won’t, physicians would strike. Not all of them, of course, but enough to really put some pressure on the subject. It is also not uncommon for docs to “slow down” their work in order to make a point. This has the benefit of allowing docs to take care of very ill patients, but at the same time put a serious wrench into things.</p>