I always wanted to be a doctor. But due to my not-so-well upbringing and brain injury at an early age coupling that with my parent's parenting style, I couldn't be one. Not to mention the exam center was away from my hometown and I had caught chickenpox. Plus I am not eligible for it, as board results (qualifying exam for the minimum standard to get an admission to medical college) come after the medical entrance exam and I fail to meet the minimum grades.

So I sound like a textbook of medicine (not in the way I wanted) and am casually left wondering if a severely mentally ill person can become a doctor? Considering the fact that of course his parents still abuse him and is a completely social awkward. It's not common for a dysfunctional family (which makes the person mentally ill, not schizophrenic but at least does a good damage to the person's mental health) to perfectly deal with the aspiring-doctor-who-is-mentally-ill and care for him as a normal family would.


There's a series from House MD creators named the Good Doctor that's about an autistic surgical resident. A lot of people say it isn't medically realistic but dramatically well-executed. I personally cannot stand the social stress of being in a pure science class (not overachievers, socially alive, therefore prey on the weak or the socially inept) rather than a medical class where the student is more likely to be sincere and less likely to be a goon waiting to prey on some socially inept classmate.

But I don't think I could stand the INTELLECTUAL and EMOTIONAL strain in med school as well. It'd be pretty ridiculous for a brain damage patient who forgets almost everything while reading to try to cram all the knowledge of textbooks. Not to mention lab records, practicals, etc.

Ah, the horrors of world!