have the privilege of knowing a few doctors with law degrees. i.e they did their MBBS first and then an LLB/JD (in three years) a few years after. they're a wonderful bunch and i'm so glad to have gotten to know them just before leaving for the uk myself. even one of my closest friends here, a long-time family friend, is seriously considering doing a law degree after graduating from medsch this year. what i'd yet to come across, however, was someone else who had done law first and then a medical degree.
turns out i didn't have to look very far. it was on one of the wilderness trips where i first met the lovely C from the year above, who had studied land economy at cambridge, went on to be a big four consultant and then came to medsch. and she in turn told me about a certain M who had done law, worked as a lawyer for a few years, before switching paths. but it was only a few trips later where i finally met M when his methodological, meticulous sandwich-making gave him away as a former solicitor.
and M summed up why medicine so beautifully i cannot but help share.
"on a single day medicine popped into my head. i can't pretend it was a long held ambition; but it seemed to make sense as a high powered, demanding career, but with the strong people contact element missing from law."
granted, M was a high-flying magic circle corporate lawyer inundated by paperwork of the same sort. quite possibly my idea of not-how-i-want-to-live. the rest of M's email is equally articulate and beautifully written but i'm afraid that's for the reserve.
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