Superior,
I will tell you what I told someone just last week. If you think you could be happy doing anything else in the world, do it. If you can imagine yourself a stock broker, school teacher, or brickmason, do those instead. However, if you want to be a physician so badly you can taste it, don't let anything keep you from that goal. It is just too difficult to get there if you just sort of want to do it. You have to do college with all A's, med school which is 3 times harder than college, and residency which can be grueling.

I am an emergency physician, which is one of the high pressure, high liability fields. Only certain personality types do well in EM. If you like to slowly and methodically deal with problems, if you need lots of data to evaluate the problem, if you like to focus on one thing at a time, or if you are a perfectionist, you should pick a different specialty.

Good set of questions! I hope my answers help some.

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