<p>I want to attend a well-reputable school, get a career in the medical field helping others with lots of personal interaction with a good salary, get married, and be able to spend time with my husband and family. I want to be able to go out on weekends and not worry about being on call. I want to be able to sit at home some days with my kids and just be able to make cookies with them or help them decorate the house...</p>
<p>Will all of that be impossible if I get a M.D.? I know that the hours are long, people are always on call, etc. I DO want to have a good balance between my work and personal life.</p>
<p>You can do all those things occasionally. How often you need to do them may well rule out medicine.</p>
<p>If you want to be able to go camping most weekends -- i.e. 30 weekends every year -- then medicine is out. If you want to do it once every couple months, that works just fine.</p>
<p>depends on what you want to do in medicine. in general medicine is a demanding/time consuming career
what are your motiviations for going into medicine?</p>
<p>Funny - this is basically why my husband chose emergency medicine (well, not the only reason, but a big one).</p>
<p>There are some other specialties that are a lot easier on the home life, too. Derm, optho - also sometimes FM and peds (post-residency, and depending on the group).</p>
<p>No matter what you choose, though - residency will suck the life out of, well, life, for the most part.</p>