What kind of Doctor should I be? -

Hi! I am a high-school senior who id going to college next fall. My parents want me to be a doctor because of the job safety, good pay and opportunity to help out the people. I also want to go to that profession. But I heard that in order to be a doctor one needs to --- be in College for 10+ years. Ok I can take it. But after being a doctor a doctor has to pay his a big amount of malfunction insurance (about $60000- $100000+). After paying that, college loans, residency loans, car payments and home mortgage) I don t think a doctor will have a good amount a money left to spent for him and his family. I also heard that certain type of doctors who aren t specialist like (adult medicine or Family practitioner I think) don t have to pay high amount of insurance, have less stress and still can keep a lot of money for his family after paying all his debts and insurance and still gets to help out ppl around him. I want to know what type of doctor should I be?? I don t wanna wake up everyday at the middle of night (like some specialists-- ob/gyn specialists, surgeons, neuro-surgeons), I also want to pay less insurance, less stress, earn good money, have some time with my Family. So based on all these things can anyone suggest me what type of physician should I be? All types of suggestions are appreciated.|::::|You ll be in a better position to make this decision in year 3 of med school.|::::|Please understand that lots of docs now join a practice and don t hang out their own shingle. And as well, never any more see patients in hospital... they have now what is called hospitalists... docs who care for patients. I can only tell you that the insurance is huge, and the stress of any field of medicine is very high. Several fields of medicine aren t too stressful... radiology, and pathology, where you really never have to deal with real people and real problems. You interpret the radiographs, and tell their physician, or you do slide of tissue, and tell the surgeon what you found....) After college you have 4 years of med school, the internships and residencies, where those places work the socks off of you. No doc ever has short hours. In the future medicine will pay much less than it does now.... since stem cell research will make many specialists pay far less. (Ex not too many years ago orthopedists could easily make $400,000 per year, and overhead wasn t too bad. Now insurance eats it up, and research will soon find a way to grow new cartilage so that hip and knee replacements won t even be a procedure. You will only like medicine if you are compassionate, like to help people, and enjoy solving puzzles... (What s behind door number three) {this means you grab a chart, walk in to see your patient, and try to figure out in 12 minutes what the problem is, and correctly prescribe a medication. When you screw up, you get sued.} If you wish to just make a lot of money, run a big company... the head honcho of GM makes 9 million, and between 9 top guys on the boards of GM and Ford??? something like 21 million dollars... obscene.|::::|u should be the doctor that fits u money can be fix your future what i want 2 be cost money but i m going 2 earn it the hard way. don t worry about the cost be what u want|::::|My best suggestion is to just not worry about it. If you re 100% sure you want to be a doctor, then go for it. You don t decide what kind of doctor you will be until you go to med school. I m a sophomore pre-med student in college and have no idea what kind of doctor i want to be. I just know i want to be a doctor. When you get into medschool, then you can start worrying about it. Hope this helped!