Name: 6 個你會後悔成為醫生的跡象！ (6 Signs You'll Regret Becoming a Doctor)
Uploaded: 2026-03-05T17:42:33.000Z
Duration: 8 min 38 s

You can get straight A's, crush the mcat and match into your top choice specialty.

你可以拿到全A，考上mcat，然後進入你最想讀的科系。

But what if you wake up in 10 years thinking, I made a huge mistake?

但如果你十年後醒來，心想「我犯了一個大錯」，那該怎麼辦？

Jubbal medschoolinsiders.com Just because you have the academic skills and work ethic to be a doctor doesn't mean it's your destiny.

Jubbal medschoolinsiders.com 就算你有當醫生的學術能力和工作態度，也不代表這是你的命運。

And realizing that a decade into your career is devastating financially, emotionally and spiritually.

而在你職涯十年後才意識到這點，會在財務、情感和精神上造成毀滅性的打擊。

These are the signs that point to you regretting becoming a doctor one day.

這些跡象都指向你未來有一天會後悔當醫生。

And one of them you absolutely need to figure out before your future break, your bank or your heart.

其中有一點，在你未來破產或心碎之前，你絕對需要搞清楚。

The first sign is you're in love with the idea of being a doctor.

第一個跡象是，你愛上的是「當醫生」這個想法本身。

how impressive it sounds at a dinner party or on a dating profile.

在餐會上或交友軟體上聽起來有多麼令人印象深刻。

You haven't spent real time understanding what you'd actually be doing every single day for the next 30 years.

你沒有花時間真正瞭解未來 30 年你每天到底要做什麼。

There's a critical difference between loving the idea of being a doctor and loving what doctors actually do.

喜歡當醫生的「想法」和喜歡醫生「實際做的事」，這兩者有很大的差別。

One leads to a hollow career where you feel empty despite the credentials.

前者會讓你職涯空虛，即使有頭銜也覺得匱乏。

The glory of being able to call yourself a doctor is miniscule compared to the eight to 10 hours a day you're spending actually being a doctor Monday through Friday, month after month, year after year.

能稱自己為醫生所帶來的光榮，跟你每週一到週五，一個月又一個月，一年又一年的花八到十小時實際當醫生相比，根本微不足道。

If you haven't immersed yourself in a clinical setting, you're chasing the concept, not a career.

如果你沒有親身投入臨床環境，你追求的只是個概念，而不是一份事業。

And you can't fake your way into the second one just because you're good at taking tests.

而且你不能只因為擅長考試，就假裝自己能走進後者。

You need to fall in love with what doctors do, not what they are.

你需要愛上的是醫生「做的事」，而不是他們「是誰」。

Watch our so youo Want to Be and day in the Life series to better understand the nuances and specifics of each specialty.

看看我們的 So You Want To Be 和 Day in the Life 系列，更深入瞭解每個專科的細微之處和具體內容。

See the actual day to day reality, like the monotony, the paperwork, and

看看真實的日常，像是單調乏味、文件工作，以及

the moments that don't make it into Grey's Anatomy.

那些不會出現在《實習醫生葛蕾》裡的時刻。

But even if you love the work itself, there's another problem most people miss.

但即使你熱愛這份工作本身，還有另一個大多數人都忽略的問題。

The next sign is that you have a competing passion that's equally strong as medicine and maybe even stronger.

下一個跡象是，你還有另一個和你對醫學同樣熱衷，甚至更強烈的熱情。

You keep thinking, what if I pursued that instead?

你不停地想，如果我當初選擇那個就好了。

You fantasize about the other life you could be living.

你幻想著另一種你可能過著的生活。

Becoming a doctor is a full time job commitment.

You can't dabble in architecture while committed to medicine.

你不能在全心投入醫學的同時，又去涉獵建築。

This isn't like working an office job while pursuing web design on the side.

這不像是在追求網頁設計的同時，還能兼顧一份辦公室工作。

Four years of medical school, three to seven years of residency, then decades of practice.

四年醫學院、三到七年的住院醫師訓練，然後幾十年的執業生涯。

If your heart isn't fully in it, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars you could have invested in your true passion, plus over 30 years of wondering what could have been.

如果你的心沒有完全投入，那數十萬美元本來可以投資在你真正熱愛的事物上，而且你還會花三十幾年的時間去猜測「如果當時…」。

Test your competing passion seriously before you commit to medicine.

在投入醫學之前，認真測試你那個有競爭性的熱情。

看看它在真實的檢驗下是否禁得起考驗。

Then ask yourself which path you'd regret not taking more.

然後問問自己，哪條路你會更後悔沒有走？

This third sign is arguably the most dangerous because it has a massive impact not only on your future career, but

這個第三個跡象可以說是危險性最高的，因為它不僅對你未來的職業生涯，

也對你的人際關係有著巨大的影響。

What if it's not another passion pulling you away, but someone else pushing you forward?

如果不是另一種熱情在把你拉走，而是有人在推動你前進呢？

Is your motivation for medicine driven by parental expectations, family legacy, or external pressure?

你對醫學的動機是來自父母的期望、家族傳承，還是外界的壓力？

One classmate I had in med school got straight A's and a 522 MCAT.

我有一位醫學院的同學，成績全A，mcat考了522分。

She applied to med school because it was expected, not because she felt called to it.

她申請醫學院是因為這是被期望的，而不是因為她覺得自己被召喚。

By second year, she was going through the motions while her classmates, including me, were energized despite the exhaustion.

到了二年級，她只是在應付差事，而她的同學們，包括我，儘管筋疲力盡，卻充滿活力。

With each passing systems block and clerkship rotation, she felt more trapped in a career path that was never her idea to begin with.

隨著每一個系統學程和臨床輪替過去，她感覺自己被困在一個從一開始就不是她自己想法的職涯裡。

She thought she couldn't pivot without disappointing everyone who had been proud of her.

她覺得自己不能轉彎，否則會讓所有為她驕傲的人失望。

The deepest regret you'll have about becoming a doctor is spending over a decade pursuing someone else's vision for your life.

當醫生最深的遺憾，就是花費十幾年的時間去追求別人對你人生的願景。

Ask yourself if external pressures from the people in your life were not a factor, would you still want to become a doctor?

問問自己，如果生命中那些人的外在壓力不是一個因素，你還想當醫生嗎？

Write down your answer when you're alone, not when family is around.

當你獨處時寫下你的答案，而不是在家人在場的時候。

Your gut reaction in that moment is what matters.

那一刻你內心的真實想法才最重要。

But even if you want this for yourself, there's another kind of trap waiting, and

但即使這是你自己想要的，還有另一種陷阱在等著你，

it's one that locks you in whether you like it or not.

一種不管你喜不喜歡，都會把你鎖住的陷阱。

You understand logically that debt is a thing, but

你理智上明白債務是真實存在的，

you haven't actually run the numbers on what it means for your life and career freedom.

但你還沒真正算過這對你的人生和職涯自由意味著什麼。

The average med student graduates with $260,000 in debt, and this is only the average.

一般醫學生的畢業債務是 26 萬美元，這還只是平均值。

Many students from wealthy families graduate debt free, while many others leave with 400 to $500,000 in debt.

很多家境優渥的學生可以無債一身輕畢業，但也有很多人背負著 40 到 50 萬美元的債務離開。

You can't take a lower paying dream job, can't pivot to a less lucrative field, can't afford to take risks, and

你無法接受薪水較低的夢幻工作，無法轉向較不賺錢的領域，也無法承擔風險，

all because you need to pay off debt for the next decade or more.

這一切都是因為你得在未來十年或更久的時間裡償還債務。

But keep in mind, if you don't come from money, there are ways to secure scholarships and save yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars.

但請記住，如果你不是出身富裕家庭，還是有辦法爭取獎學金，省下數十萬美元。

I graduated with only 20,000 dol in med school debt despite paying for everything myself, college, med school, all of it with zero family help.

我自己付了所有費用，包括大學、醫學院，完全沒有家人幫助，醫學院畢業時只背負了 2 萬美元的債務。

If you want to know exactly how I pulled that off.

如果你想知道我到底是怎麼辦到的。

Check out the Med School Insiders Blueprint Channel, where we dig deep into the strategies that actually move the needle in getting into med school and more advanced strategies such as securing grants and scholarships based on our experience one on one helping over 10,000 students succeed.

可以看看 Med School Insiders Blueprint Channel，我們深入探討了真正能幫助你進入醫學院的策略，以及更進階的策略，像是根據我們一對一協助超過 10,000 名學生的經驗，爭取獎助學金。

Before you commit to medicine, model out your actual financial reality.

在你決定投入醫學領域之前，先仔細評估你實際的財務狀況。

Calculate your expected debt interest accumulation during residency and realistic repayment timeline based on your likely specialty.

計算一下你住院醫師期間預計的債務利息累積，以及根據你可能的專科來擬定實際的還款時間表。

看看你每個月的還款金額會是多少。

Understand what financial flexibility you'll actually have or won't.

瞭解你實際上會有多少財務彈性，或者沒有。

But money isn't the only way medicine locks you down.

不過金錢並不是醫學唯一讓你受限的方式。

It also dictates where you can live and for how long.

它也會決定你能住在哪裡，以及住多久。

你渴望自由地移動和隨性而為。

You want to relocate on your own timeline, experience new cities, and travel freely.

你想按照自己的時間表搬家，體驗不同城市，並自由旅行。

The idea of being geographically locked for three to seven years during residency, then tethered to early career hospital contracts, makes you anxious.

住院醫師期間長達三到七年的地理限制，之後又被早期職業醫院合約綁住，光是想到就讓你感到焦慮。

Medicine, and especially medical education, is the death of whimsical travel adventures.

醫學，尤其是醫學教育，扼殺了那些異想天開的旅行冒險。

You can't be spontaneous because your schedule is locked in.

你的行程已經固定了，所以無法隨心所欲。

And not only that, so is your geographic location.

而且不只如此，你的地理位置也一樣。

While you can move from one hospital to another, or even from city to city, it's a complex process that's far from spontaneous.

雖然你可以從一家醫院換到另一家，甚至從一個城市換到另一個城市，但這是一個複雜的過程，一點也不隨性。

You might suppress these feelings during training, but they don't disappear.

你可能會在訓練期間壓抑這些感覺，但它們並不會消失。

They build, and eventually the geographic cage will leave you feeling trapped and burned out.

它們會累積，最終地理上的限制會讓你感到被困住和心力交瘁。

Fortunately, after four years of med school and three to seven years of residency, you'll have more geographic flexibility.

幸運的是，經過四年的醫學院和三到七年的住院醫師訓練後，你將會有更多的地理彈性。

Some career paths offer significantly more freedom, like emergency medicine, locum tenens work, and telemedicine heavy fields.

有些職涯選擇會提供顯著的更多自由，像是急診醫學、巡迴醫療工作，以及大量遠距醫療的領域。

At this stage, you need to research which specialties align with your values.

在這個階段，你需要研究哪些專科符合你的價值觀。

Before you commit, check out the free quiz@specialtyquiz.com, which asks you questions based on your personality and preferences to help you identify the nine personality traits that align with your ideal specialty.

在做出承諾之前，可以看看免費的測驗@specialtyquiz.com，它會根據你的個性和偏好問你問題，幫助你找出與你理想專科相符的九種人格特質。

But even if you can live with geographic constraints, there's one final trap that catches those who crave independence.

但即使你能忍受地理上的限制，還有最後一個陷阱會抓住那些渴望獨立的人。

What most pre meds don't realize is that even as an attending, you're not truly autonomous.

大部分醫學院學生沒意識到的是，即使當上主治醫師，你也不是真正自主的。

You report to administrators who've never treated a patient.

你要向那些從未看過病人的行政人員匯報。

You're in charge of patient care on paper, but you're constantly navigating insurance denials, hospital policies, and

你名義上負責病患照護，但你得不斷應付保險拒付、醫院政策，以及

bureaucratic red tape that prevents you from doing what you know is right.

那些阻礙你做你認為對的事的官僚流程。

You can't just decide to take three months off.

你不能隨便決定休三個月的假。

You can't unilaterally change how you practice.

你不能單方面改變你的執業方式。

You're bound by contracts, call schedules, and institutional rules that dictate when, where and how you work.

你受到合約、值班表和規定你何時、何地、如何工作的機構規則所束縛。

You must acknowledge this reality up front.

About 6 to 10% of physicians work in cash based practices which offer more autonomy.

大約有 6% 到 10% 的醫師在現金支付的診所工作，這些診所提供更多自主權。