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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone on this thread recommend a chemistry major for a science-oriented Sr?[/quote]

I’m the doc who worked in industry as an organic chemist for a few years (technically a BS level medicinal chemist)

I’m glad I majored in chemistry because it’s fun (tho I agree with the person above that quantum mechanics is a nightmare - it’s just so bizarre).

After seeing how industry works, I went to med school. Industry is unstable - they will just eliminate a division if a drug candidate looks like it will fail. Lots of layoffs. Also, there’s a bunch of dopey MDs running the show in industry and telling the super-smart PhDs what to do (and sometimes the MDs demand that the chemists to do really dumb things).

I think I’d stay away from academia as a chemist, too. So much luck and politics are involved, and there are so few jobs.

If you like chemistry I strongly recommend medicine.

Agree with the person above that each patient is like an organic synthesis in that you need to reason each patient’s symptoms out.

Let’s say you have an anemic pt and want to know why. You put together the pts age, sex, lab values, medications, medical history, etc etc, and try to piece the puzzle back together.

And when you are stuck, you go on pubmed and get together with colleagues to try to hash it out and see if they have any ideas. It’s fun! Each of my patients is like an organic synthesis - I just have to run it backwards to figure out where things went wrong and how we can work together to fix it!

(If someone dislikes working with patients then I recommend pathology.)[/quote]

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