If you are from a family of doctors, did you feel pressure to join them in medicine?
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Shane Ryoo
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I felt some pressure. My father, cousin, one uncle (out of two), and both grandfathers were doctors. My only sibling became one.
Why didn’t I go into medicine?
I hate the smell of hospitals. It’s something that stuck with me since I was young.
My father wasn’t happy most days.
I wasn’t very good at biology. I still got As and A-s, but my physics and math performance was much better.
My father told me that he thought it wasn’t a good idea for me to go into medicine. He said the field was changing and doctors weren’t well compensated compared to before.
I went into electrical engineering, then compute
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