Question to My GP - Why Did You Want To Be a Doctor?

It's a biggun - this question will be in your medical school interview, and people will ask you all the time!

WHY DO/DID YOU WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR? WHY NOT ANY OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSION? 

Everyone will have their own reasons of course but I asked this question to the GP I am shadowing and these are the points he came up with:

• He wanted the responsibility for the patients health and the long term relationships that you can build with patients. 
• He was more interested in the diagnostic side of medicine, using your brain to solve a case, rather than doing something like radiography where you are performing a task. He didn't want a task based job, he wanted one where he could use his brain more.  
• Medicine is a constant learning curve, you never ever stop learning new things.
• Not that being a doctor is a superior job compared to roles like a health care assistant, but things like taking bloods, etc just wasn't for him, he wanted a big more.
• As a doctor you receive the clinical training that nurses and other roles don't. 
• He also wanted to get involved in the teaching side of medicine

Another question you might be asked in your interview is "Why not being a nurse?"

DO NOT SAY NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT NURSES

It takes people with different levels of responsibility to work together to create effective teamwork in order to treat a patient. Also success and ambition mean different things to different people. Somebody might be more than happy taking bloods all day, or undertaking x-rays all day and thats fine! But you might want more, and thats fine as well, you should respect that fact everyones idea of success, job satisfaction etc are different.