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Why does everyone want to do med?

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squance:
Well, my sister told me that she wanted to do med because she wanted to be in a career where she got to help people. She wants to become a doctor so she has the opportunity to offer voluntary medical aid to the many disadvantaged people back in my parents' home country.
I guess, she was influenced by my parents when she was young (eg: they would always tell her that when she grew up, she would become a doctor)...and yeah, now she wants to do med (or anything in the medical field, for that matter).

And my parents...yeah, they see medicine as being a prestigious degree which hence leads to a prestigious career which could be viewed as "heroic" by others (and yeah, i bet my parents want my sister to become a doctor so they have something to brag about to their friends (most of their friends, by the way have children that have become doctors..)).

ninwa:
I wanted to do med for similar reasons to TinyApple's sister. I was never in it for the money - I wanted to eventually work for Doctors Without Borders, which is volunteer work - completely unpaid AFAIK, after I'd saved up enough money to feed and clothe myself.

Funnily enough neither of my parents wanted me to do med. My mum was a doctor and knew how stressful and exhausting intern life is, and didn't want me to go through all that. Dad was set on me doing engineering or IT (NO EFFING THANKS!)

So I compromised and did law. =\

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