Need Help Graduated High schooler asking for help about medical school

JustOneDad
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:04:18 +0000

Pre-med might be one of the best times of your life. Don’t squander it by being one-dimensional.

@jalfred My evaluation was based on the premise that the OP seemed very uncommitted to medicine despite the statements to the contrary. If they don’t like the “crap”, it won’t go well for them.

I’ve watched the finest physicians retire or go into something else. Senior physicians in the area are now 50 years old. Even recently, that age used to be 63 or greater. It’s a fact.

Recent physician surveys showed 68% of physicians felt “somewhat negative” or “very negative” towards the current state of the medical profession.

77% felt pessimistic about the future of the medical profession.

As for the measures you said I was “wrong” about, more than 80% of the physician respondents rated the morale of the physicians they knew as “somewhat negative” or “very negative”.

58% said they would NOT recommend Medicine as a career to either their children or others.