I am not suggesting that you get a Bachelor’s, then apply to medical school, so you have time to party and hang out. You can spend your undergrad years studying a foreign language which will be highly advantageous as a physician, depending on where you work. You can spend your undergrad years pursuing artistic or musical or athletic interests which will help you be a balanced, “unstressed” doctor once you are practicing. You can spend your undergrad years attending political or policy symposia on campus which will help you understand at a macro level the issues of poverty, homelessness, poor nutrition, pollutants in water and air-- which you will see at a micro level in your patients during your residency- but will add a dimension to your knowledge.
There are so many ways to become an empathetic, skilled, well trained physician. BS/MD is only one of them-- and given how the programs are structured, you don’t need to fixate on them as your be-all and end-all.