<p>^ That is why I said it is anecdotal. I do not know many doctors. Also, I personally do not have any first-hand experience with the life of a typical premed. I think I have learned more about what the life of a premed student is like from this site (and sometimes SDN) than from the only premed that I know, my child, who really do not talk much with us about the academic sde of his premed life, mostly because we as parents purposely avoid talking about this topic – We do not want to be nagging parents :-)</p>
<p>Sometimes, I feel that a strong math/physics student can not handle some other “more messy” subject (e.g., biology, ecology) well is not because he can not do it; more likely, his tolerance for a subject that is not as beautiful as physics is lower. In other words, he may feel frustrated when too many things can not be explained in a very “neat” and strutured way. But not all subjects are as “beautiful” and well developed as physics, unfortunately.</p>
<p>On the other hand, just because physics is so well developed, some physicist like George Gammow once expressed an opinion that many physicists feel frustrated that they can not have so many breakthroughs any more, like those modern physics pioneers could during the early 20th cencury.</p>