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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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  • Well on the one hand it’s a lot less stressful than other forms of medicine. There is less noise and your day is more structured. You deal with a variety of cases. Children who need vaccinations, flu etc and on the other end early steps of cancer diagnosis and end of life care for people released from hospital.

    GPs are in demand but it’s likely that what it means to be a GP will change. There aren’t enough GPs and the government doesn’t feel it has enough control of them since they mostly run as private businesses attached to the NHS.

    its possible in future more GPs will work in hospitals or NHS owned clinics.

    if you’re passionate about it and good academically you are more or less guaranteed a job with a medical degree, and people can and do transfer into working as a GP at any stage past their initial training. I don’t see why you shouldn’t go for it if you think you can handle it academically.

    most Med degrees want you to have 3A at a level Including at least 1 from biology/ chemistry. If you have that, or think you could get that fairly easily I don’t see why you shouldn’t try it.

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  • Well on the one hand it’s a lot less stressful than other forms of medicine. There is less noise and your day is more structured. You deal with a variety of cases. Children who need vaccinations, flu etc and on the other end early steps of cancer diagnosis and end of life care for people released from hospital.

    GPs are in demand but it’s likely that what it means to be a GP will change. There aren’t enough GPs and the government doesn’t feel it has enough control of them since they mostly run as private businesses attached to the NHS.

    its possible in future more GPs will work in hospitals or NHS owned clinics.

    if you’re passionate about it and good academically you are more or less guaranteed a job with a medical degree, and people can and do transfer into working as a GP at any stage past their initial training. I don’t see why you shouldn’t go for it if you think you can handle it academically.

    most Med degrees want you to have 3A at a level Including at least 1 from biology/ chemistry. If you have that, or think you could get that fairly easily I don’t see why you shouldn’t try it.

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