Plenty of people arrive here certain they want to be a doctor, and discover the part of medicine they actually love lives in another role. That isn’t a downgrade. It’s a better-aimed life.

Nursing, medical assisting, paramedics, radiography, the allied health roles. They run the system as much as any doctor does, and some of them get more of the thing most of us came for, which is time with the patient.

If you’re weighing one of these paths, ask here. We have nurses and assistants in the community who will tell you the honest version, not the brochure.