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I've always been interested in science and healthcare, but more and more I'm worried that I'll be disappointed as a doctor. I'll see patients for whom I can do nothing -- I can't change their zip code, the trauma they went through growing up in a broken home, their seeming in ability to take their medication, their lack of access to safe places to exercise or healthy places to eat. Similarly, I won't be able to change the bureaucracy that is medicine or the corporate way healthcare is run so that we are paid to do unnecessary procedures and not paid to talk to patients.
I really enjoy helping others, thinking analytically, and learning about biomedical sciences. I'm just not sure I'll be able to make a lick of lasting impact in the field and I'm not quite sure how comfortable I feel about that. Anyone share similar feelings? Advice? Uplifting stories? I'm all ears.
I really enjoy helping others, thinking analytically, and learning about biomedical sciences. I'm just not sure I'll be able to make a lick of lasting impact in the field and I'm not quite sure how comfortable I feel about that. Anyone share similar feelings? Advice? Uplifting stories? I'm all ears.