Heh, does anyone fantasize about being a dentist? 
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I’ve always found doctor offices and hospitals to be unpleasant places. It has nothing to do with the people who work there (who are usually kind and pleasant); they just creep me out. It never even occurred to me that I would want to work in either, even though I had the academic ability and discipline to do so.
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I worked in a cancer hospital (although no patient contact) for a few years and generally never minded being in hospitals, usually to visit my sister (she had a lot of problems). That was until her months-long downward spiral and being transferred from one hospital to to the next until she died from sepsis. Now they’re the last place I want to be.
I am a doctor. The reason I’m not that kind of doctor is that when I make a mistake I’d much rather see “core dump” rather than a heart monitor flatlining. And I never did much like biology.
It didn’t come to mind that I’d want to be one until I was a couple of years already in college. I didn’t want to play catch up.
I do regret not going in to nursing. I would have been an amazing nurse.
Never, ever wanted to be a doctor. Way to much looking at naked people, and you mostly don’t get to choose the age or fitness level of the ones you have to look at. And if they have some gross, festering wound, you are damned sure going to need to take a good hard look at that. Also way too much rote memorization in the schooling. My biology and anatomy classes seemed to be 99% learning the names of pieces parts, and maybe 1% how stuff works. I can tell you which bone is the radius, and which the ulna, but never did understand what powers muscles.
'Cuz I married one.
Did you see my mark in Organic Chem 2? If you did you wouldn’t be asking that question 
In all seriousness, I very briefly looked at what it would take to become a physician while I was still in high school and decided I didn’t want to be a doctor that badly. So I went into a very structured degree program that didn’t really have room for med school pre-reqs and was challenging enough without aiming for med school qualifying grades. I don’t have any regrets; I really love a full night’s sleep and would never have survived residency.
Holy crap, I am a doctor! How did that happen? (after a day like today, it must have been cruel fate).
I grew up in a medical family, but my siblings went into non-medical fields (drugs, prostitution, government service). I was the black sheep of the family, working in radio. Then it struck me - instead of working horrible hours for low pay surrounded by crazy people, I could work horrible hours amongst crazy people for pretty good pay, so I went into medicine.
If only I’d learned to juggle armadillos like my parents wanted, I could have become a traveling carnival worker and earned some respect.
Never wanted to be a doctor.
I sort of wanted to be a vet, but I couldn’t handle dissections.
I really don’t want a job where making a mistake can kill somebody.
Frankly, I am too lazy to be a doctor. Sure, I would be making more money but I would be putting in way more hours. I like having a life. My 9-5 job is cushy.
Also, I don’t really like dealing with people in person. I like helping people but I like to do it via phone or email so I can roll my eyes or take a break or get input before I respond.
Pretty much everything about being a doctor horrifies me. Mutilation, deformities, dismemberment, oozing and puss-y wounds. I never want to see any of that up close.
Then you get into the paperwork, and it’s all over for me. You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to put up with that bureaucracy.
I really think I could be quite a good surgeon. But back in high school I ignored math (I’d say “I didn’t like math” but honestly I decided I didn’t like math a LONG time before we got to any real math), took AP Calculus and AP Bio just so I wouldn’t have to take it in college, and never set foot in the science building. At the time I’m also sure I couldn’t have dealt with the blood.
Now I probably could, and I do think I’d be great at the physical work of being a surgeon, but I don’t have the energy to go to med school and I don’t want to move for an internship and really it’s just all too late. Not for somebody else, but for me.
I think it was in (Dr) Richard Gordon’s *Doctor In The House * that he made a statement to the effect that children of doctors would either opt to become doctors or anything but. I was in the first category, as was my eldest sister. The next one had more sense and is in IT.
I never had any interest.
I lost the key to my TARDIS 
Medicine/biology bores me.
I thought about being a doctor, then a vet. Then I realized I might have to euthanize animals… It would break my heart, every time, I’m sure.
I was going to be a psychologist, but didn’t get at least a master’s degree, having burned out on psych in the final couple years of my bachelors degree. It is probably just as well, as I’m having some difficulty with my own mental state as it is. 
I’m the son of a physician (general surgeon/GP)-thus, when I was a kid, I’d invariably get the “So Johnny, do you want to be a doctor like your daddy is?” Umm, no I never did, starting with the fact that the sight of blood seriously wigs me out and when I was a kid seeing it could cause me to faint. And a body with an open gaping wound or incision? Fuggetaboutit.
And when I was studying for my bachelor’s in zoology I’d then get the same question, with people assuming that zoology—>physician. Umm no…talk to the hat with the bird of prey on it.
Surgery itself is interesting, but dealing with surgeons and OR nurses can be awful.
At least if you’re a normal person and prefer not to be personally insulted and yelled at by people at work.
I was yelled at and insulted during my surgery rotation more than any other rotation in med school. It’s just part of the culture in surgery. Surgeons pride themselves in how much abuse they can take, and I think the OR nurses like to yell at med students because they can’t yell back at the surgeons when the surgeons yell at them.
Because librarianship is the wave of the future. (Also, chemistry and calculus were my nemeses.)