Who as a child wanted to grow up to be a doctor?

I think the question is pretty straightforward. Did you have one of those child doctor playsets when you were younger? Also did you actually fulfill your childhood desire? Personally for myself when I was younger I wanted to be a mechanic. I always loved to watch Rudy (some people in the neighborhood called him Grandpa) tearing apart some machine repairing it putting it back together and putting it back to work. I did have some inclination about the medical field. But as I got older that one definitely got pushed aside because my math skills kind of stink. I did at one time wanted to enter the military and become a medic or a mechanic (weird I know but the human body is just another machine) unfortunately injuries as a youth kept me from pursuing that goal.

I wanted to be a doctor growing up. My math skills kept me out of medical school as well. I grew up watching MASH, Trapper John MD, and St. Elsewhere. Alan Alda was my hero and my childhood crush along with Gregory Harrison who played Gealonzo Gates on Trapper John MD and with David Morse who played a doctor on St. Elsewhere.

Mashie

@Mashie, I loved those shows! Bigger fan of Mash and St. Elsewhere. Alda was outstanding. Loretta Swit was great too and very easy on the eye. On of my fave scenes was when Hawkeye gave Hot Lips an injection in her butt. I am sure that was one of the highlights of the series for you too!

I grew up with my father's office attached to the house. Patients would stream in and out of the left side door of the house, while we would enter on the right side or the back porch area. I can still remember emergencies from the local steel plants arriving in our back driveway and going into the back office door in the middle of the night.

I wanted to be a paramedic. I LOVED the show Emergency! I loved almost all of the characters on there except for one doctor, Dr. Morton because he was a complete jerk! But I really wanted to be a paramedic. I even went to school and was certified as an EMT 1-A. However, this was around the time that AIDS came into the picture. No one knew how you got it. No one wore any gloves or anything at that time. I didn't get any encouragement to follow that dream at home. My mom and family was to worried about me doing it. I was also worried about being able to hear well enough in certain situations as well. At the time I could hear a little bit better than I can now, but a stethoscope was pretty much a no go for me. I think mainly, that is the reason I didn't pursue it. I did end up as a pharmacy tech for about 15 years, so I was in the medical field a little bit.

Well i thought about it a few times yes

Me, I wanted to a pediatrician when I was little. but later learned it took ages of med school and loads of money.....got discouraged quick. Settled for a bachelor's degree in early childhood development & education.

Anyway, I love midwifery now more than OB's. Ever since I was in 8th grade I wanted to be an OB, I wanted to help moms give birth, but the idea of a mom or baby dying by something going wrong scared me a bit. When I was three or four, somewhere around there I found discovery health and though i didn't know where babies came from. I knew how they came out. I would watch birth videos for "fun" and knowledge then take my baby dolls and shove them up from between my bears legs to the tummy and cover the teddy bear's stomach with a blanket pretending to deliver the baby and even holding and grabbing the bear's back and acting as if I was helping them push. Quite into childbirth since I was born really.

Yes I did. Was always fascinated by medical practice, though not one specific thing about it. I got a local druggist to get me a Merck Manual when I was 12 and read it assiduously. Anyway...I went on to fulfill my dream and have never had any regrets. Maybe it started with that little toy doctor bag I got for my 5th birthday...who knows

I wanted to be a paramedic. I LOVED the show Emergency! I loved almost all of the characters on there except for one doctor, Dr. Morton because he was a complete jerk! But I really wanted to be a paramedic. I even went to school and was certified as an EMT 1-A.

I have a cousin who became an advanced care paramedic because of that show.

I never had a desire to be in the medical field. People suggested I become a veterinarian because of my love of animals, but I knew that 1. I didn't have the smarts to go to university and 2. I could not handle putting healthy animals down just because people didn't want them.

I had a play doctor kit. As a teenager after discovering what a gyno was I wanted to be that and be able to look at girls bodies and exam them no I never did become a gyno or doctor.

I did. I always enjoyed "helping & looking after people" and was a member of a local first aid group from a young age. Unfortunately, due to unexplained errors in the University application process I didn't get any interviews for Medicine. I then changed to doing Biochemistry, Physiology & Pharmacology with the intention of going into drug research. When I graduated, the recession had hit the industry and I never managed to get a job in the industry 😢

Most of my family is either a doctor or worked in the medical field. I was never directly pushed to go into medicine, but my dad steered me to the science course from early on, math, physics, biology, chemistry. On ther other hand, I dreamed of being a stuntman, fire fighter, jet combat pilot. Had a great time partying in college with little real vocational thought. Not much of that came to fruition, brief stint in the navy followed by an engineering career.

I secretly wanted to, yeah. Except I'm terrible at math and science in general, and those are required for scientific studies of any kind. I'm a woman of words, and of creations.

And as an adult, I grappled with the ethical issues of being in the medical field with a medical fetish. Even if... I do wonder about nursing sometimes. But the job itself probably has a rhythm that is not for me anyway.

So... I guess no Dr. Aka for this lifetime. Sad. Lol. But Aka-who-loves-researching-medical-shit and Aka-who-is-very-into-oxygen-masks-and-anesthesia? Absolutely.

I didn't have a specific desire for the medical profession (engineering was my future) but I posted this on a related thread that applies here...

The little brother of a buddy who was about to taken to the doctor exclaimed “I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up so I can do butt temps and butt shots all day long.”

My buddy and I had a good laugh at that comment.

I totally wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid. I think the desire came about as I was learning to cope with my own fear of going to the doctor's office. I was doing a bit of reading, was studying how to take all the vital signs, how to do first aid, and then started reading about what medical school and internships involved. Got to the part where they mentioned needing to witness surgery. My stomach went up into my throat and that was the end of that!! I think this got replaced with wanting to be am astronaut.

I also did not go on to be an astronaut!

I pretty much did all my life and I'm extremely grateful that my dream came true. I'm a very lucky boy.

I had the capabilities to be one but was fatigued to spend 12 years in college, I picked a less time consuming medical profession but wish I had went on to become one. The stupidity of youth can not be understated.

My dad was a family doctor, and his office was once the attached to car garage at our house. (After he converted the garage he built a detached garage for the car). My heart would quicken when I’d see attractive guys from school showing up for their physicals. Obviously, I never saw them get examined, but after hours I would linger in the exam room, knowing that I was in the same space where so-and-so had his pants pulled down by my father just a few hours prior.

I just realized that I wandered in that last post and never actually answered the question. I have a horror of blood and needles, so I doubt very much that I would’ve made it through the first semester of med school. Lol.