• Question: Why did you not want to become a doctor?

    Asked by maddie8879 to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      You mean a Doctor of Medicine (MD) rather than a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)?

      I wasn’t rich or clever enough to get into medical school 🙂

    • Photo: Darren Nesbeth

      Darren Nesbeth answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Would you rather be a mechanic or design new cars?

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I think it takes a certain character to be a doctor and I think that I would become too involved with the emotional side of it.

    • Photo: Deuan Jones

      Deuan Jones answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      All the stuff I was interested in was the actualy research – being a doctor is more like applying research to help people. Also the things I really get interested in are single cells or molecules within cells – so dealing with a whole human body wasn’t really for me.

    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      When I first went to university I didn’t work very hard so I probably wouldn’t have coped with the course at the time. I am actually studying medicine just now as well as working because I would like to combine a career in medicine with science research.

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