Medicine or Engineering; considering math

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>This may not be in the right forum...</p>

<p>I am going into my senior year of high school; and I straight up love math. When I come home and I have to do homework, I actually look forward to doing my homework for math class because I enjoy it and I am quite good at it :].
However, I do have a lesser interest in science;
in order of the three sciences,
I enjoyed chemistry the most, physics next, and biology the worst. The only reason I disliked Biology compared to chem and physics was because of the lack of math in it.
Now, I find it clear that my interest lies in math and science; and therefore, puts me in an ideal position to major in Engineering.</p>

<p>But I still kind of want to become a doctor. For the money, the chance at helping others, the respect I will get; the pride I can take in all that schooling. The only thing that has scared me is the lack of math, both application and research, in the medicine field. If the medicine field does not have a good portion of math in the neverending schooling, I feel I will lose desire and become burned out before the real work even begins.</p>

<p>At this point I am looking into Chemical Engineering, but is there any chance that I can stay in the medicine field and still use math everyday and depend on it for my career?</p>

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<p>Go shadow a doc in a hospital for a week. See what you think. See if you can find an anesthesiologist, in particular.</p>

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<p>man, after talking to several docs i now am convinced that medicine is not a career for those seeking money. job satisfaction, yes. saving lives, yes. money, no. there are easier ways to make money.</p>

<p>are you asian? why is it always the choice between medicine and engineering? why not go into finance? law? there are more than just two career options in this world...</p>

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<p>There's MD/PhD too, and it's not that uncommon for people to get the PhD in an engineering specialty. Of course, I would only consider this if you actually enjoy doing research. Try not to worry about it too much, though, because you still have PLENTY of time to figure out what you want to do.</p>