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So, here I am, going through an engineering degree, and over the last two semesters I've slowly realized that I really, really don't care for the work. It may be the types of problems, or the people in the field, or the lack of fields in which one can better mankind, but frankly I didn't see much to look forward to.
Now, about a month ago, I started to fail out of my classes out of disinterest. It is at this point that someone suggested being a medical techy, and keeping something like a CAT scanner up and running...and I took completely the wrong message from it.
Since then, for the first time in my life, I'm interested in possibly doing something, but I have no clue how to do it. My family is engineering/defense through-through, we have no connections to anyone that has any medical know-how, (besides our physician), and I know 10x as much about philosophy/political science than anything that has to do with anatomy. So
tl;dr
Starting from scratch, what should one do and expect while on course to become a traditional doctor?
Now, about a month ago, I started to fail out of my classes out of disinterest. It is at this point that someone suggested being a medical techy, and keeping something like a CAT scanner up and running...and I took completely the wrong message from it.
Since then, for the first time in my life, I'm interested in possibly doing something, but I have no clue how to do it. My family is engineering/defense through-through, we have no connections to anyone that has any medical know-how, (besides our physician), and I know 10x as much about philosophy/political science than anything that has to do with anatomy. So
How do I go about pursuing a degree in internal medicine?
I've talked to what councilors my ****ty little community college provides, and they want to put me on a 2-year program that doesn't specify in anything practical, (basically a vague premed, not even leading to a specific bachelors), and I have no idea how medical school works, what I should actually expect in the health care field, (I assume everything I've seen and heard is trumped-up Hollywood crapola), and no idea how I should start moving down this road. I only have a destination-- a doctor's doctor. Not some techy-highly specified position; something that is quintessential of the field, and I'm willing to work for it.
tl;dr
Starting from scratch, what should one do and expect while on course to become a traditional doctor?