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If it's of any consolation, I'm in medical school, hating every second of it, and will likely be in your position very soon. I regret not getting into engineering almost every day of my life. Not much help, I know, but know there are others who can empathize. Good luck.

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What is the worst thing you hate about medical school?

That I'm wasting my 20's on a profession that offers no room to innovate, whose training is no more difficult than learning how to drive a tractor, where the work is not stimulating and involves seeing the same patients with the same diseases day-in and day-out, and that will soon be uprooted by technology.

The career is hardly meaningful, despite what others romanticizing the profession might have you believe.

wow really? I thought being a doctor is as stimulating as it gets... trying to find out causes for diseases, evaluating worst case scenarios, etc.

Have you thought about partnering with someone with an IT background to pursue something with mobile health, EHR, or something that's in the crossroads between the 2? There's a lot of innovation there.

That's rough dude.

The best I can say is at least you have relatively secure and decent-paying employment at the end of the road, but I know that isn't much consolation.

How about a career in medical informatics? If you're interested in technology and have a medical background, there are many interesting opportunities for innovation out there.

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