If life could be reset, would you still be a med student?

[The Angriest Bird]

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Imagine there's a big reset button for life, and you press it. Will you still choose to be a medical student? If not, what else would you do?

 

[braluk]

Despite its drawbacks, yes I would; I do find a lot of personal fulfillment in the sciences, and theres nothing else I'd imagine myself doing having dabbled in various different fields. That said, if I didn't go into medicine, I would enjoy journalism or something along the lines of writing. Something which involves a lot of traveling.

 

[SnowTown]

No.

I would look up some winning lottery numbers and drop out of high school...

 

[Law2Doc]

Imagine there's a big reset button for life, and you press it. Will you still choose to be a medical student? If not, what else would you do?

For a lot of us nontrad career changers, we actually did press a big reset button and chose being med students, after having been someplace else in our lives. So sure.

 

[vtucci]

For a lot of us nontrad career changers, we actually did press a big reset button and chose being med students, after having been someplace else in our lives. So sure.

I agree with Law2Doc. I would absolutely still be a medical student. Even the worst day of medicine is better than my good days of legal practice.

 

[LifetimeDoc]

For a lot of us nontrad career changers, we actually did press a big reset button and chose being med students, after having been someplace else in our lives. So sure.

Agreed. I'd reset my life, and be an attending somewhere by now after having practiced for 8 years instead of being a MS1. It's much better than "working" IMHO, though I'm asked from time to time to fix technology stuff in medical school, cant hide from your prior career, LOL.

Having said that, I'm sure there are some folks second-guessing whether they like medicine or not. A good career depends on whether you are happy or not, not on how much money you make. Since I love medicine, all the crap and stuff in medical school doesn't really matter to me, especially when you realize how crappy it is out in the working world.

 

[DingleBerry]

being a med student wasn't so bad, I suppose I could do it again. Although you catch a glimpses of what being a doctor might be like, being a student is nothing like being a real doctor

I think the real test will come during residency, at that point I may need a reset button 🙂

 

[lilnoelle]

If I had a reset button that I could push there are quite a few things I would do differently. Going to medical school would not be one of them.
I'm happy to be where I'm at and am looking forward to when I'm out practicing medicine.

 

[Tiger26]

Imagine there's a big reset button for life, and you press it. Will you still choose to be a medical student? If not, what else would you do?

I think I would be a porn star playing a doctor character. I'm sure it would be just as fulfilling to play a dr. on tv (or the internet) as in real life, plus I think it would be a lot less work while being markedly more enjoyable. Yeah, I'm going with that on the reset🙂

 

[spicedmanna]

Imagine there's a big reset button for life, and you press it. Will you still choose to be a medical student? If not, what else would you do?

I don't really have any regrets with the choices I've made throughout my life. I mean, if I could have done it differently, I would have. So, yes, I would still be a medical student. However, sometimes I wish I had done it a little earlier rather than taking 10 years to arrive to where I am. I'm not certain that would have been the best move anyway. Obviously it took me this long for a reason. I believe am probably better off with all my life experience. Still, sometimes I find myself wondering what my life would be like to if I had chosen to attend medical school at 23 instead of in my mid-thirties.

 

[SomeDoc]

I wouldn't want to press the button-med student or otherwise.

 

[Tristy]

No.

But apparently I'm a masochist so I would end up one way or another in medical school/medicine-again...

 

[SnowTown]

reset reset reset reset reset reset... immortality!!!

 

[sprinkibrio]

I have absolutely no regrets. However,

I would be a dancer or a painter/other artist. I'd live in a little nothing apartment in San Fransisco/New York with five other girl friends and just be trying to make it right now. My parents discouraged this side of me which was really out of my control, but I plan to give my kids a wider range of options.

So basically even if I had another button a lot would still be in control of my parents.

 

[deleted103644]

I have absolutely no regrets. However,

I would be a dancer or a painter/other artist. I'd live in a little nothing apartment in San Fransisco/New York with five other girl friends and just be trying to make it right now. My parents discouraged this side of me which was really out of my control, but I plan to give my kids a wider range of options.

So basically even if I had another button a lot would still be in control of my parents.

Funny, I always thought half the reason to become a "starving artist" was because your parents would disapprove...

 

[beefballs]

No, absolutely not.

 

[la petite mort]

There's no other profession I think I'd be good at and enjoy...maybe advertising, but who really wants to dedicate their life to something so hollow?

 

[sprinkibrio]

Funny, I always thought half the reason to become a "starving artist" was because your parents would disapprove...

Seriously?? I'm guessing you didn't take a lot of liberal arts classes in college... It's a totally different aesthetic.

 

[Occams Razor]

I didn't think medical school would be as torturous as it is...but hopefully my life will get much better AFTER the first 2 years.

Ask me in 20 years if i'd press that button.

 

[TXSurgResident]

Still would have gone to med school, still would have chosen this path (9 years training after med school). Would have taken a year off to be a ski bum, but someday I'll buy a condo at Whistler/Blackcomb, and do it in style...

 

[fascinoma]

I would have to agree with the previous posters who commented on medicine as a second career. Having worked various other jobs prior to applying to medical school, I don't think there's a day that goes by where I don't think to myself how lucky I am to be doing what I'm doing. Though on days when I've been rounding for 10+ hours with an unusually quiet attending, I sometimes wonder why I exist...but I never wonder if I made the right decision to become a physician. 🙂

 

[peace zealot]

Well I wish there would be no reset button; it took me a life to get into the medical college, so it would be a nightmare to press a reset button.However, alongwith medicine I wish I can be a part of politics of my country and take part in welfare work.So I have plans to start welfare work to improve health in the poor world.

Oh well, should I ask here which speciality would be suitable for my plans in future.

 

[Blesbok]

If you had asked me a month ago when I was still in second year classes I would have said no. 😳