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YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL
 
I went to medical school, because I felt I had to, and that choice haunted me… for 8 years… and it NEVER GOT BETTER. I tried. Everything. When I dominated step 1, it didn’t get better. When I matched into residency in California, where I could surf every day (what I really wanted to do), it didn’t get better. When I got boardcertified in psychiatry, it didn’t get better. When I started working parttime, it didn’t get better.
 
You see, I ran the medicine horse to death. It only got better, when I gave up trying to be someone I wasn’t.
 
Now, it’s better. Because I invest effort into things I care about. Like writing. Like, surfing. In this midlife crisis I’m in, I even refurbish furniture. And sell it. Life has surprised me.
 
But let’s back up, to be able to not have to go to medical school, what do you have to do then?
 
You have to be yourself.
 
Let me tell you something: I was more scared of doing that, than going to medical school. Must be some scary shit huh? Why? Because to be yourself, you have to define yourself. You have to be different than the tribe, because guess what, we are different than everyone else. And on that note, some folks love medicine. If you don’t want to be a doctor, there are millions of other people that actually do! Let them donate years and years and years of life to medicine!
 
Many of us, many many many of us, go to medical school for fear of what our family might think if we don’t. That’s been a journey for me too. A rocky one. But because I avoided that conflict with my parents, deferring what I wanted, just to keep the peace and preserve what they thought was best for me, it changed my relationship with them too. Not in a good way like I thought it would. As medical school got really hard, as the residency grind mounted, I started to resent the people I chose medical school for, because it was suffering and it wasn’t for me. Now that I left, now that I’m living in open honesty about who I am and what I want to go do with my life, we have a much better relationship. That cannott be said for everyone though: I do know of people, that if they didn’t go to medical school, they may not get to speak to their parents again, maybe for life. The stakes are high, but all I can say is this: YOU ARE WORTH IT.
 
Lastly, medicine is a noble field. Physicians get to help people heal. How cool is that? But… from having been a burnedout physician, having worked with burned out physicians, residents, and medical students, I have often asked myself, “Wouldn’t a lot of these people be better served going after what they really wanted? Passionately? Not just doing what they think society expects of them?” Because again, as the world works, there are people who would die to be physicians. Who really do love it. I worked with them, and it was a beautiful thing to watch.
 
So, do you have to go to medical school? It’s a very difficult decision, and its one that deserves your upmost curiosity. Because, if you don’t want it, regret doesn’t end just because you enroll in medical school. If you want it, it’s worth it. If not, life is too short to spend time chasing others’ dreams.
 
Let’s go live a life we love.

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