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Should I become a doctor

Zazious

All my life I've dreamt of being a doctor, more specifically a general physician (GP). As a child I was obsessed with health, always got doctors kits. Growing up I started to study people, health and diseases, medicine. I'm almost 26 and I feel like time is running out for me to do this. I know I'm still young but it takes years of study and I've got the ASD and anxiety that could ruin this for me. Both do seem to cause me a lot of difficulties and challenges in my every day life and three years ago I had mentalhealthproblems. I really want to do this but I don't know whether I should go for it not. My family don't offer a lot of encouragement or support.

My dream is to become a GP and have my own practice. This is my dream, I've already bought a few bits of kit, like a bag,  stethoscope, just to keep the dream alive.

I feel like I could do it but my head says no. I'm stopping myself but I don't know if I'm right or wrong. 

Please help. I could do with your opinions on this. 

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  • If you disclose your anxiety and ASD diagnosis to the university then they should offer you extra support. The 5 years of the degree will place you in all areas, mostly in hospitals but there are some community placements as well, you won’t be able to start specialising in general practice until at least the foundation years. There’s also a lot of academic work as well. Have you looked at any of the course details online or do you have a local university which teaches medicine? You could go along to an open day and see what it’s like. I’m not a doctor myself but I work with many and a handful are ND (not just ASD) so it’s not necessarily a barrier 

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  • If you disclose your anxiety and ASD diagnosis to the university then they should offer you extra support. The 5 years of the degree will place you in all areas, mostly in hospitals but there are some community placements as well, you won’t be able to start specialising in general practice until at least the foundation years. There’s also a lot of academic work as well. Have you looked at any of the course details online or do you have a local university which teaches medicine? You could go along to an open day and see what it’s like. I’m not a doctor myself but I work with many and a handful are ND (not just ASD) so it’s not necessarily a barrier 

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