Ironically, med schools are taking the opposite tack. Because reading books and watching TV shows about medicine are so wildly divorced from the real thing, and because so many kids are really launched towards medicine by their parents, "I always wanted to be a doctor" is considered a (mild) red flag: it's an indicator that someone is pursuing the field based on childish fantasies rather than a rational, adult decision. The former tends to create more failures and burnouts, which med schools try to avoid if for no other reason than because drop-outs are lost tuition.
As a doc: you can't become a doc for love of the profession, because it's a profession you can't test drive. You can become a doc for love of the fantasy of the profession. It's awesome that programming is different in that way: you can't produce an OS in HS, probably, but you can certainly take a run at making simple stuff in python or simple iphone games.
As a doc: you can't become a doc for love of the profession, because it's a profession you can't test drive. You can become a doc for love of the fantasy of the profession. It's awesome that programming is different in that way: you can't produce an OS in HS, probably, but you can certainly take a run at making simple stuff in python or simple iphone games.