when you grow up ...do you want to be a Doctor ...i am studying   to be a  nurse  and i must say its 24 job...it so hard.... 
so the thing that i want to ask do you want to be a doctor or what ?

Nope, I don't wanna pursue a career in medicine either, my gut feeling says I'm not fit for it.

No way would I have the devotion or patience to go into medical school. I aim to be a software engineer/computer scientist, which to me are basically the same thing. Programming is more intriguing to me than medicine.

No, I never really wanted to be a doctor, too much schooling, and if you make a mistake you could kill someone. I honestly don't know what I want to be, although recently I have been gaining an interest in Psychology. Good Luck with being a nurse.  

I'm a computer Tech at the moment for my job but I'm saving up to go to school to be an EMT and work in an ambulance

I don't want to be a doctor when I grow up because it looks like a really hard job and if I make a little mistake it could ruin the whole procedure.

Even though I am still not sure on what I will do in the future, I know very well I don't want to be a nurse or doctor. It sounds very difficult and it can risk someone's life. Also, I am not interested in being a doctor.

You all are making me sad with these responses. Makes me feel like I'm going to do something awful someday. I haven't hurt anybody yet, I swear. (Completely kidding here!)

I want to be a doctor when I grow up. And by that I guess that means I'm all grown up in about 9 months or so. I'm currently in my final year of medical school and I'll be graduating this coming June. Sure it's a ton of school, but it's absolutely worth it if you love what you do. Granted, you do go to school for seemingly forever but it really isn't all bad honest. That said, I'll be 28 when I graduate. Then, after medical school you do another round of training, called residency. With this, you do continuing education at a hospital for 3-5 more years, depending on what you'd like to do. This is essentially more learning how to treat and manage patients, with your own workload, etc... and you do procedures yourself, and you're now considered a doctor and are able to write prescriptions and all that, but you get crazy hours and a tiny pay check. I'll go through the schooling aspect after undergraduate (ie. College) education since many people don't seem to fully know how it works. I'm including this here for the people who are considering a career in the medical field, since people who are at least somewhat interested in medicine will be clicking on this thread.

After undergrad, you do 4 years of medical school. The first two years are purely lecture based, where you sit in a classroom and get lectured to for 4 or more hours a day. There are some laboratory and hands on stuff, but that is few and far between early on. First year, everybody will do anatomy lab, where some truly selfless people who passed away donate their body to the school and you dissect it, to supplement your anatomy knowledge to help you understand how the body works, not only in its individual segments, but as a functional unit on the whole. You also get some limited patient experience, but that doesn't happen until your 3rd and 4th year.

3rd and 4th year are spent exclusively in hospitals learning directly from doctors. Generally, you spend 4 week at a time on each service (whether its surgery, O/BGYN, psychiatry, family medicine, internal medicine, etc...) and then move on to the next field, which is often in a completely different hospital. So essentially I've been living out of my car since the beginning of 3rd year because of all the traveling I've done, with ending up in a new hospital after getting comfortable at the previous one. It does tend to wear on you travelling so much, but it really is neat seeing how medicine is practiced in different areas of the state, region, or even country, and you get to meet and work with some great people along the way.

Now, I'm currently applying for residencies which will then complete my training. The work hours are long, and actually a law was passed to keep residency work hours at a max of 80 hours per week because of how much works residents were doing in the not too distant past. I'm looking to go into Family Medicine. I have 3 more years of training, and at that point I'll be a full-fledged doctor and finally out working on my own. It is kind of crazy to me to look ahead at that time and think I'll almost be 32 years old once my training is complete. Other doctors will then go on to specialize at this point, and will do possibly a few more years of training, which is called a fellowship at this point. Now THAT'S a ton of schooling. It takes some motivated people to do that, and I'm not sure I have that sort of motivation in me.

Sure, this all seems pretty intimidating, but it's all worth it in the end. Even in my somewhat limited exposure, I've been fortunate to meet some really great people and do some pretty major things for them. I can't go into specifics due to doctor-patient confidentiality, but it really is humbling to see what you can do for people and huge smile you get afterwards. Even for something so little as taking a few extra minutes to talk to somebody means the world to a patient, and makes you feel great that you've made a positive impact on them.

If anybody here has any questions about pursuing a career in medicine, please sent me a message and I'll be more than happy to give my honest and straightforward opinions on the positives and negatives on my experience so far. If you see any of my posts in the past, they're almost all medically related so this is something I enjoy doing. 

I know this is pretty long winded, but I hope this helps you understand what all goes into school and training, and possibly even light a fire under you if you think this is something you could potentially doing as a gratifying career for yourself. Sure the training and amount of schooling it takes to complete the training seems daunting, but I could not possibly see myself doing anything else. Hope I didn't bore you too much and I look forward to answering any questions any of you may have.

When I was younger, I didn't really had any plans on being a doctor, I pretty much guess that the medicare field wasn't that much interesting to me, so I didn't really take any classes in school.

I'm not sure yet. My parents are pressuring me to be in the medical field (half my family are doctors and nurses) because they believe that, especially with Obamacare, doctors are in high demand, and I admit I've always liked medical science. At the same time, I love English, criminal justice, and debate. I'm thinking of compromising and becoming a lawyer who specializes in medical malpractice suits, but like I said, I'm not sure yet.

Unless, of course, you're talking about a doctor with a blue police box and a sonic screwdriver. I'd DEFINITELY love to be one of those.

I have no desire to be a doctor at all. It's definitely not the right kind of job for me.

I would like to play a doctor on daytime television. Does that count? I think I would be really good at saying things like "Jennifer won't survive the night without a kidney transplant." and "I'm afraid Samuel is in a deep coma. The only thing we can do now is hope that...somehow...he is able to regain consciousness." 

mikez913 : How did I do? Could you feel the intensity? Seriously though, I was curious what games you like to play on Vizzed?

thephantombrain :
I grew up with a NES and SNES so I like to play the games I grew up with as a way to relax de-stress. If I get some time, I like to play the games that make me feel good or I have fond memories of. Loved RPGs like Chrono Trigger and Earthbound but I rarely have enough time to play things that long anymore. Instead I'll gravitate towards games I can play in for a little in a sitting, especially on an NES and games I grew up with, like Ducktales, Castlevania, Kirby, or Megaman. Mostly the classics I guess.