At the risk of offending everyone here, doesn't reading about the medical education process and "what it means to be/become a doctor" seem a bit cliche?
I'm currently in the process of reading Dr. Andrew Weil's first book, The Natural Mind. For anyone who doesn't know who he is, Dr. Weil is a graduate of Harvard Med School who turned the medical world upside down when he abandoned all things allopathic and began exploring medicine from the point of view of other cultures...especially eastern culture. This book is incredible! I'm not saying that I agree with everything in it, but it sure turns a lot of current medical issues on their heads. The major premise of the book is that illicit drugs, especially hallucinogens and marihuana (the "h" is his), are not inherently dangerous and can be used to explore higher (or lower, depending on perspective) states of conciousness. He goes on to outline the implications to the concept of human health. Very interesting--especially when you read it after eating a sheet of acid (kidding).
That said, there's obviously nothing wrong with reading the basic pre-med literature. But I have an extremely short attention span, and I can't read anything more than ten pages long unless it's controversial.
