Dear Anita, Elle Ticker 700 and Liesel,

Thank you all for your advice. I question whether my nature is suitable for medicine anyways- I get stressed easily and am not excited about the actual CONTENT of what being a doctor entails: ie., learning about diseases. I mean, I am good at memorizing but I don’t put in extra work/interest/passion into learning about illnesses.It’s more of an ego thing where, if I’m with a friend who is a doctor, I would pretend to know all the health related things she’s talking about in order to feel important and useful. What attracts me to medicine is the humanitarian aspect of what I could do clinically as a doctor- caring for people and helping with a universal skill set that would guarantee me employment anywhere in the world. Should I just push myself to go through schooling in order to reach that light at the end of the tunnel? If that mindset makes sense, then maybe I should apply again….