Is my “why medicine” reason something I shou

[Nomemal]

---

Members do not see this ad.

so I want to know whether what I explain is something I should mention in interviews/essays, because it seems that it is true but I don’t know if I am communicating well/I often dig myself into a deep hole when I try to answer this question.

For a lot of my life I have had phases where I’ve wanted to be a person who practices different professions. I’ve wanted to be a pilot (was part of a model RC club in middle school), wanted to go into business/finance (was a member of DECA and did well in competitions), and I’ve had the chance to explore public heath, research, medicine, dentistry, naturopaths, DO/MD.

HOW I FEEL:

However, at the end of the day when I think about what it is I want to do and imagine myself doing anything else besides medicine, I would simply get bored out of my mind of my work. I think that I am the sort of person who gets dead set on one ideal and anything else just seems awful. For example, I can only see myself coming to work as a doctor and actually wanting to get up and go to work. Any other profession and I find that I’d just not feel I was doing anything meaningful enough for me to want to spend countless nights pursuing, rather than going to work to pay the bills. It’s hard to describe why I feel this way, maybe I am romanticizing what it means to be a doctor, or maybe it’s just an intrinsic passion after spending countless nights being in the hospital/talking to peers/advisors/teachers about medicine, which I wish wouldn’t end.

WHY I FEEL THAT WAY:
I think that the reason I feel the way I do about medicine is because In my opinion, improving the physical quality of life, is just about the best/worthwhile work someone could do. I understand that research/public health/even biotech/engineering can go a long ways into improving people’s life, but without seeing the people I’m helping and going through what they go through, I find it hard to be able to really connect with the bigger picture of improving life. Also I want to help people by doing operations that improve their ability to be sure of their next Days with their loved ones, not help them by inventing a gadget that helps them save a few seconds of their day. I find the distance between most careers and the patient disgusting/something that would make me depressed to be around.

As to why not any other healthcare provider?
I want to be able to know the most about what it is someone is going through. I am fascinated by that and the idea of constantly learning about diseases and what goes wrong/ how the most important/complicated machine of god/nature works. I also think the lack of responsibility you have as a nurse, etc can be something that doesn’t fit with who I am since I am more motivated if I am the one responsible for the patient rather than if I am only responsible to my employer/myself.

Any advice on what I should add/take out would be appreciated.

I honestly don’t have a backup plan because I feel like anything else as a career would just be depressing to go to work.

 

[Fall_of_Dorian_Gray]

I echo everything @cj_cregg said.

It's never good to deprecate another field in writing or in interviews. You never know who is going to read your application or who you're going to get at the interview. They could be an NP, med student, or even a faculty with a background in medical research/engineering.

I'm sure that it's just your presentation that needs work and that you don't ACTUALLY feel that way (I hope) and you let your passions do the talking. But they are really prone to cause misunderstanding and pop up as a red flag.

Imagine this: med schools adcoms want someone that they wouldn't mind being treated by or working alongside. They're literally choosing their colleagues. If you present the way you just did to us, they may think that you're going to be a Doctor that looks down on everyone else in healthcare and treats them as if nothing they do is significant. Read - God complex.

Now I KNOW/hope you aren't one of these, so make sure that shows up in your writing.

Side note: I didn't feel like your reasons for why a physician was substantial or showed a good understanding of healthcare roles.
"I want to be able to know the most about what it is someone is going through. I am fascinated by that and the idea of constantly learning about diseases and what goes wrong/ how the most important/complicated machine of god/nature works."

Nowadays, as much as physicians want to, it's the nurses and support staff that really know what the patient is going through most. A physician may try, but because of the volume of patients they have to see, it's usually the nurse that tends to most of "what the patient is going through."