Seriously OP, if you're considering any of the healthcare fields, you need to shadow. Get a feel for what it's actually like. If you aren't willing to make a 10+ year commitment to medicine, stay far away.TheMikey wrote:Not enough resources? Are you talking about money for tuition or connections for a job? If the former, you can just kill the LSAT, and go to a school with a large scholarship. If the latter, if you go to a good school, and do great, then you can still get a good job with minimal connections.hubbathehut wrote:I don't think I could become a lawyer. Not enough resources
Considering other healthcare fields now...physical therapist?
OP, it's pretty clear that you're confused about what you want to do as a career.. And I'm just going to say that I'm sure almost everyone here will agree that you're a very confusing (and confused) individual. Find out what you want to do, weigh the positive/negatives, think hard about if you REALLY want to do whatever it is you're thinking about, and go from there. If you decide "*light bulb* Hey, I really want to be a lawyer because ____", then come back here and you can get great advice on how to go about dealing with admissions and so on. But no one is going to decide for you whether to go into the medical field, law or some other field, that's your decision.
And I think earlier multiple people mentioned radiology. If you're considering that for the sake of economics, you clearly don't know enough about medicine to even begin touching the field. The field of radiology is utterly collapsing as jobs are being outsourced. Just a couple of years ago, there was a story in the NYT on how multiple residents in radiology lost their placements because of funding issues--they couldn't even complete their *training*, let along get a job to service their six-figure debt. If there's one specialty in medicine with poor job prospects it's radiology.
This forum is not the place for you to be considering medicine. Get out and shadow. Talk to your professors. Ask med school students questions. Maybe get a license to practice in a paid medical setting (nursing assistant, pharmacy technician, etc etc).
Even if you can make it with the MCAT, USMLE, and etc., finalizing your future in medicine without any long-term experience in the field is a recipe for disaster.
