That's an amazing story. Glad everything worked out for you in the end! Many of my friends are in medicine, and some of them lament that if they could do it all

That's an amazing story. Glad everything worked out for you in the end! Many of my friends are in medicine, and some of them lament that if they could do it all over again, they would pursue some form of engineering. It's hindsight bias of course, but the grind is just so bad in the states and the debt can be crippling. 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 3 years residency, possible 2-3 year fellowship. That's a really really long time for a person to have to grind through the competition, the residency politics, etc in order to be able to finally make it to a place where they can actually practice medicine. Apparently 95% of doctors wouldn't recommend someone to pursue medicine today. It's disheartening.