“I have concerns about someone who caves under pressure taking a knife to a person’s brain one day”
- Do not be concerned with this. This person has no chance, zero, zilch to get to the point when he will be operating or even in any kind of family pracitice. This person will not surviive on the brutal (thank goodness it is brutal, it has to be) path that leads to the MD title. But sorry, surgeions are NOT cool-headed, and surgeyr environment is NOT for everybody, I do not mean that in terms that you have to be better than everybody else. Nope, but you have to be of certain personality or you will hate it. Most specialties, including family practice require certain personality or it may be a clash that will not lead to a successful career. Byt the same token, not everybody could be in psych ward, and psychiatry is the least selective specialty.