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Topic Name: 26 years old Finance guy who now wants to become a doctor...
Message Name: go for it
Date Posted: 02/24/2002
In Reply To: I'm 26 years old and getting closer to 27. I graduated college with a business degree and quite frankly, business sucks. Over the last couple of years I've considered the idea of actually going back to school to become a doctor. I would have to go through at about of year of post-bac classes and take the MCAT. Then, I'd have to wait a year before getting into a school. I'd then have 4 years of Med School, and finally the 3 years of residency. This puts me at age 35 before I start making a true living as a doctor. I'm currently involved with a woman my age (26) who has a 7 year old child. Marriage and such is a definite option for our relationship. Here's my question... Does anyone out there have experience about starting a family while in med school? How hard is it to do? What do you do about money? What does the stress of medical school and doctoring do to a relationship? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...
Message: You are going to be 35 at some point any way. Any reason to believe that things will be better for you if you don't try to go into medicine?

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