Great article and on point. A former flatmate of mine committed suicide about 1.5 years after I left the flat, which I did due to his erratic and hostile behav

Great article and on point. A former flatmate of mine committed suicide about 1.5 years after I left the flat, which I did due to his erratic and hostile behavior toward me, which I think was due to a number of factors, but mainly his stress from an intense hospital residency while he also did further study simultaneously. There's an article mentioning him here: http://vitualis.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/action_vow.pdf http://vitualis.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/action_vow.pdf The danger zone for med students is when they sacrifice themselves and tolerate all the reasons that the Harvard article states why not to go to med school, because of the idealistic notion that: "You have only ever envisioned yourself as a doctor and can only derive professional fulfillment in life by taking care of sick people." As such, these smart and ambitious med students shoot for the moon, and due to the reasons in the article, realize that they won't make the moon (ie earn that fellowship, obtain that degree, receive that certification, get that promotion) and then they feel that their life is a failure, or won't have any further meaning the way they wanted it to, and then they kill themselves, because they have no exit strategy (or plan B) and are ill themselves. There's nothing noble about the suicide of med students and interns, but I've seen how it happens right up close. I have further thoughts on the matter but that's the core of my experience regarding the negatives of this career path.