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Well if you really want to maximise your odds of becoming a doctor, the best thing you can do for yourself is choose your parents wisely. Don't choose to be bo
by zxcmx 9y ago
Well if you really want to maximise your odds of becoming a doctor, the best thing you can do for yourself is choose your parents wisely.
Don't choose to be born in a slum in a third world country, or a trailer park, thats gonna hurt your chances. Make sure you don't pick a family that will abuse you as you grow up. Try to make sure you at least get average genetics for general intelligence and memory (50% of people won't...).
Ideally, choose to have at least one doctor as a parent (increases your odds by more than an order of magnitude). A good mentor or role model at the right time could substitute though.
Of course, people _can_ control their own lives, but most people who succeed at becoming doctors were both lucky AND hard working.
And I'd be willing to be that though they did work like hell to do it, a lot of doctors "sleepwalked into it" because a teacher at school or a parent told them thats what they should do.
- sheepmullet 9y ago> Well if you really want to maximise your odds of becoming a doctor, the best thing you can do for yourself is choose your parents wisely. Like you said we have been blessed by the hard work of those who went before us and in turn we can raise the next generation to be even more prosperous than us.
- alexasmyths 9y ago" the best thing you can do for yourself is choose your parents wisely." Maybe. I'd rather have a good worth ethnic than 'rich parents' on the road to becoming a doctor anywhere in the Western world. There are innumerable lazy rich kids and they won't be getting into med school.
- yostrovs 9y agoAmazing how downvotes correlate with the political opinion of the people here. And then you see comments like "I haven't even seen anti net neutrality arguments at all.. Why would the FCC do that?" You choose to close your eyes, you get a seemingly dark world.