If I didn't genuinely enjoy litigation, I'd already be studying to take pre-med prereqs and the MCAT, but y'all are forgetting how many doctors are miserable. CMS in some ways is worse than the tyrannical midlevel looking over your shoulder.
krads153 wrote:It's 2 years of bookwork, 2 years of sort of chill rotations (I believe), and then 4 years of residency. Supposedly the four years of med school itself are comparatively chill since it's mainly pass/fail and seems like it'd be easier, at least hours wise, than biglaw. Residency would suck, but at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel, unlike in law. A lot of doctors seem to have reasonable hours post-residency, while lawyers seem to work long hours for life.
Hell no, man. 1st and 2nd year are infinitely harder than LS (the amount of material you have to internalize is insane), studying for both steps is brutal, and 3rd year rotations bear many, many similarities with being a biglaw associate (but BONUS - you're paying tuition instead of getting paid six figures!). The debt burdens are also ridiculous. You're right about the light at the end of the tunnel, but the coding/billing aspect of the job still sucks. I think to be genuinely happy as a physician you have to not give a shit about how much you're getting paid and just work for a hospital.
(source: SO is a med student/basically every friend I have from UG went to med school/half my family is physicians)
Also, at least to me, there was this paradox that kept me from going to med school: the interesting specialities have absolutely brutal hours, and the specialties with good QoL are mostly boring.