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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should pursue it if nothing else will do but i recommend thinking long and hard if something else could be as rewarding. I'm a dr and have a niece who is a premed student-its painful for me to contemplate the long, exhausting, demoralizing, expensive slog she has ahead and she is a bright eyed 19 year old.

And it's not just me! Female Med school/residency friends that I've spoken to about niece's premed plan have said-every single one of them-something along the lines of "you've got to talk her out of it!" [/quote]

Can I ask if it was her particular path or the entire field of medicine that everyone was trying to talk your niece out of?

I admit it's a pet peeve of mine when physicians do the whole affected "it was so hard, it's so awful, I mean WE did it, but you really shouldn't" thing to younger students. It reeks of narcissism and a bad humblebrag. [/quote]the world needs physicians, yes. And certainly going to med school residency is not impossible. You may be hearing from practitioners caught in the vice between declining reimbursements, their own student loans and upcoming college tuition for their own kids. I know a physician couple who graduated med school in 1988 who are just THIS year finished with paying off their student loans, and have one child who is a junior in HS, and 2 more behind that...Perhaps a sense that the effort doesn't match the rewards these days[/quote]

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