's idea of becoming a doctor (was Advice pls for healthcheckusa options)

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If there is some area you are weak in (say math) then that just means

you need to try that much harder. If you're willing to work like a

mad-woman, nothing can prevent you from your goal - no matter what that

goal. If you look around hard enough, you'll find there are people who

have overcome insurmountable odds and beaten the norm. And just think,

you're not facing insurmountable odds - you can think and reason well,

you have a body that may be functioning under par, but it still

functions! So, I think you can do it. As long as there is breath in the

body there is hope. And if someone tells you " you can't... " just find a

way around the obstacle and keep on trying. Besides, if you graduate at

an older age, you'll look more trustworthy and real-world-seasoned to

your patients!

You don't need our advice. You just need to want it bad enough.

Hooray for you for thinking about it.

Best,

-Lynn

Teague wrote:

> Here is something interesting for you all.... We are our own best

> advocates right?? Well... I figured that since doctors often don't

> listen to patients and patients don't often listen to doctors, that I

> wanted to do something about that.... So guess what I'm doing?? I got

> this notion to go to med school... and become an Osteopathic Doctor

> (D.O.). I don't have to major in pre-med to get into their program

> which will shave years off of doing classes that don't matter and only

> focus me on mostly medical things. However I do need to complete a

> bunch of math, physics, chemistry, etc. classes before I can get in.

> I'm a bit worried about the learning disability *cough* thyroid

> problem... as my mind is 89% healthy enough and my body is lagging at

> 50-75%. BUT... I figure the best way for me to be healthy is to know

> what is going on.

>

> Anybody think this is completely stupid or makes all the sense in the

> world?? I remember being about 10 years old and telling my dad I wanted

> to be a doctor and he said yeah but you have to be good at math... and

> you're not. Well, that ended my desire to be a doctor (obviously it

> would). Then I've always persued something medical.... when I was in

> highschool the stars aligned my last two years and math wasn't a

> problem, I was tutoring in Algebra and exempt from my final exams in

> school because my grades were so high. I've always been good with

> anatomy, medical, etc. classes so those I won't struggle with...

>

> So here's what I'm thinking.... retrain my brain with the math classes

> and figure out how to learn them.... as well as chemistry, biology, etc.

>

> I can still get my bachelor's in business & industry training. And I'll

> have top priority in the med. school because they specifically want to

> train people in this area and average age of entry is 25 so I'm doing

> alright there lol.

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> If you want to check it out, you can go to:

> www.vcom.vt.edu <http://www.vcom.vt.edu>