<p>nj_azn, using fancier speech doesn’t strengthen your argument (not trying to offend you, just telling you how it comes off).</p>
<p>Essentially, you’re saying that being a doctor automatically makes one better than a businessman, based on some logic you’ve created. You’re saying, in other words, that everybody who becomes a doctor is inherently on a higher plain than everybody who goes into business. That’s a very elitist viewpoint and I’m surprised that you don’t see why people are disagreeing with you.</p>
<p>I have immense respect for doctors, probably too much. But I don’t want to go into medicine because I think it will put me on a higher pedestal than my friends and classmates going into business. It would just be plain egotistical. Not everybody is interested in science and medicine, not everybody is capable of becoming a doctor, not everybody is a pre-med. Similar to what BDM said, we are all part of a much larger team, and it doesn’t have to be limited to medicine. Businessmen, politicians, scientists, doctors, bankers, analysts, aides, secretaries, construction workers, pilots, and yes, even (sometimes unfortunately), lawyers, make the world go 'round.</p>
<p>You seem like the type of person that looks down on most people that are not in medicine for the sole reason that you believe that a career in medicine makes one inherently more important. When you see a janitor, do you think you are better than him? Obviously, a doc’s job is more significant than a janitor’s, and yet, they’re both part of the vital team that makes the world spin.</p>
<p>I’m interested in medicine because I think it will be personally satisfying to me, and because at the end of my life, I’ll be able to say I made a difference (hopefully). I’m not interested in it so that I can think about how I’m a more important person than my business major friends and classmates.</p>