Be honest

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True reasons for medicine

  • Money

    Votes: 4 4.7%
  • Power

    Votes: 4 4.7%
  • Prestige

    Votes: 11 12.8%
  • Sheer thrill

    Votes: 37 43.0%
  • Money and Power

    Votes: 3 3.5%
  • Money and prestige

    Votes: 27 31.4%

  • Total voters
    86
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drkingdingaling

What are your true reasons for going into medicine. Personally I get a high from making the unhealthy healthy but I like money also soooo..... Click your honest answer!
 
You know, at first it was about money and power. From a Korean perspective, that belief is foistered on you early by your parents who believe that's all there is to life.

However, I found my own mentors and they taught me the thrill of doing medicine for the sake of medicine. I hope one day to become successful enough in my work that I would be able to do charity cases as well without folding under bankruptcy.. I could live very well off of 100,000 a year and really have no desire to earn more (until I have kids who have to go to college, then I'll probably rob banks).
 
I just want more money for booze, weed, and strippers.
 
I was honest. 😉
 
How about another option (which happens to be my major reason):

Guaranteed employment for life
 
WHAT ABOUT "NONE OF THE ABOVE"?
 
Trophy wives, anyone?
or I suppose those fall under "money"
 
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