Re: What if you don't want to treat patients?

It REALLY sounds like you should be looking into graduate programs in
biomedical engineering, medical informatics, or some other basic
science field.  (Oops--missed the bored with computers part.  OK
molecular biology, then...)  Even if you were to express a plan to go
into pathology or radiology, it doesn't sound like you'd be very happy
spending too much time around other people who are focused on clinical
medicine.

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> "aegon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > You CAN always enter ancillary fields such as pure research,
> > administration, procedurally-intensive profefssions, etc., but, if
> > this is your goal from the outset, then there are far easier routes
> > than getting an MD.
> 
> Ok, could you give me some examples of these "ancillary fields"?
> 
> To give you some background, I've already put in a decade in the IT field.
> I'm bored of computers and ready to move on to some other science.  I'm
> taking college courses to improve my qualifications for grad school.
> Pre-meds at my school (Berkeley) take dumbed-down versions of math and
> science courses "for biology majors", so they can spend the rest of their
> time volunteering at hospitals, running canned food drives, or other drivel.
> From my engineer's point of view, the health care field has a peculiar value
> system by which they make a big deal out of this humanitarian stuff at the
> expense of academic achievement.  I (like most engineers) value intellectual
> achievement and money.  I'd like to get into a new scientific field without
> having to lower my academic standards or pretending to be some squishy
> humanitarian from the red-ribbon crowd.