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Reasons..

.. Why I'm not pursuing medicine despite my course being Biology. Medicine is a calling. I am not as self-less as I thought, and my confidence level barely reaches average. I am afraid of losing my patients, of failing the expectations of the family members in case of a dying loved one. The trauma can severely affect me as much as it would for the family. I am prone to depression myself, how could I possibly treat others if I could not take care of my mental being? etc. etc. Maybe some could say I am good enough to push through, but at the back of my mind, I know what I cannot do. But knowing myself, maybe it is but a lazy excuse to not enter the war zone such as med school. To tell you the truth, I know very little about the world of medicine. I barely know what the process of becoming a doctor really is. So, I am backing out on my plans of becoming a doctor. Although maybe at later on, at some point in life,  I would think of myself as a neurosurgeon for the sake of