<p>I am very interested in science, specifically medicine. However I am better at understanding complex things, memorization and, I want to say recognizing things then more creative aspects like coming up with new treatments, etc. and making quick decisions in things like surgery. Is there a job in this field for me? Perhaps a job that doesn't involve surgery and life or death situations? I thought maybe an something in orthopedics or pediatrics? Any insight is welcome and thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Step 1: Volunteer in hospital/shadow physician to see if this is really what you want.</p>
<p>Step 2: Go to medical school. When in your third/4th years, you will rotate and get to try all the specialties. Then you can choose what you want to spend the next 40 years of your life doing.</p>
<p>Well, there’s always spelling…</p>
<p>Most of clinical medicine requires knowledge of a huge body of information, recognizing things, and understanding complex things. Very little of clinical medicine is “creative.” People don’t want, and insurance companies won’t pay for, inventive ways to treat or manage illness; people want, and insurance companies pay for, ways of treating and managing illness that are known to be effective.</p>
<p>Some medical specialties involve making quick decisions under pressure: emergency medicine, of course, and some kinds of surgery, and anesthesia. But many other medical specialties do not rely heavily on quick decision-making: radiology, oncology and dermatology are examples that come readily to mind.</p>
<p>(Also, orthopedists are surgeons.)</p>