<p>Your parents have done a good job of alerting you to the downsides of a medical career. Everything they are saying is true, perhaps less extreme than they have portrayed it. Still, lots of people will go into medicine, and be glad they did. </p>
<p>You seem much better informed than most high school kids. Keep this up, major in something you like, and make a real decision about medical school after a year or two of college.</p>