View results: What Sparked Your Interest In Medicine?

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Volunteering at a Hospital/Clinic
Votes: 19 24.7%
Exposed to Medicine by Family Members that are Docs
Votes: 12 15.6%
Watching Grey's Anatomy,Scrubs,MASH,House,ER [insert show that glorfies/romanticizes doctors]
Votes: 11 14.3%
When I heard Doctors Raked In the G's
Votes: 18 23.4%
When I realized being a Doctor would impress the ladies
Votes: 13 16.9%
Wanting to self-medicate
Votes: 8 10.4%
Realizing Doctors would never be out of a job
Votes: 23 29.9%
The Biomedical Research I did
Votes: 3 3.9%
The idea of getting to Augment Breasts for a living
Votes: 7 9.1%
My Family basically they would disown me otherwise[esp for you Asians and Indians out there]
Votes: 2 2.6%
Other[please specify]
Votes: 20 26.0%